US07797090B2
A system and method for remotely monitoring the status of a hydrogen vehicle includes a data acquisition/communication module configured to receive a plurality of signals representing one or more status conditions associated with the vehicle. The data acquisition/communication module is further configured to report one or more of the status conditions to a computer remote from the vehicle. The system is further configured to receive one or more signals from the remote computer in response to the reported status condition wherein the received signal represents an action to be taken in response to the one or more status conditions. The data acquisition/communication module is also configured to initiate the action to be taken. A computer remote from the vehicle is configured to monitor the one or more status conditions reported by the data acquisition/communication module and determine if an action must be taken.
US07797089B2
A system and method for managing a power source in a vehicle having an engine and an electric machine includes setting first and second discharge limits for the power source, where the second discharge limit is higher than the first discharge limit. A buffer value is determined as a function of at least the second discharge limit and an engine-on power requirement. A driver demand for power is determined, and the engine is started when the engine is off and the driver demand for power exceeds the buffer value.
US07797087B2
A scheduling system and method for moving plural objects through a system described as a freight railway scheduling system. The scheduling system utilizes a cost reactive resource scheduler to minimize resource exception while at the same time minimizing the global costs associated with the solution. The achievable movement plan can be used to assist in the control of, or to automatically control, the movement of trains through the system. Train location reports used in the automatic updating of the movement plans are selectively disabled for individual trains as a function of the activity scheduled for that train.
US07797085B2
In a method for determining the position of a spacecraft based on vector determinations, a direction vector is measured in a body-fixed coordinate system; a reference direction vector is determined within a reference coordinate system based on the path position of the spacecraft and an orbit model; the overall spin vector of the spacecraft is determined within the body-fixed coordinate system; and a reference overall spin vector of the spacecraft is determined within a reference coordinate system by time propagation of known initial values of the overall spin of the spacecraft or by time tracking of a reference model. The position of the spacecraft is determined based on the four vectors.
US07797083B1
Communicating a power control feedback signal from a system is disclosed. In some embodiments, upon determining how to control input power which may be based at least in part, for example, on an in situ measurement of an operating condition in an operating environment, an appropriate symbol is constructed based upon the determination and is transmitted on a single line. In some embodiments, the single line corresponds to the reference voltage of an associated power supply.
US07797080B2
A Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) Management and Control System (CS) that provides “Closed Loop Adaptive Climate Control” of heating, cooling, ventilation or any combination thereof to an occupied space using standard AC electric induction motor(s) connected to a fan and other motor or electric powered devices. This new CS uses methods and apparatus based on Opto-Programming & Processing (OP) Analog techniques that allow multi-dimensional concurrent variables to continuously and Adaptively vary the quantity and/or rate of discharge air, return air, outside air (where available), discharge air temperature and thermal (heat/cool) fluid flow. This new CS adapts, adjusts, varies electric motor(s) and device(s), speeds and actions by concurrently adjusting motor voltage, frequency and phase as needed; to control fan output(s), associated damper actuators, valve actuators, or other unit devices. The new CS is capable of accepting or generating multiple inputs, outputs, or a combination of both from sensors, devices, motors and more in analog or digital format.
US07797078B2
There is provided a sticky note supply device that separates an uppermost sticky note from a stacks of sticky note one by one so as to discharge to the outside of the device from a discharge section. The sticky note supply device includes a transport unit that separates the sticky note to discharge the sticky note to the outside of the device from the discharge section, a control unit that controls the drive of the transport unit, and a detecting unit that is provided in the discharge section so as to detect whether the sticky note is present or not. When a next sticky note starts to be transported after the sticky note is completely transported by the transport unit and the detecting unit detects the presence, the control unit prohibits the transport unit from being driven.
US07797064B2
In an Internet based personalized radio, where a user has a pre-selected list of songs to be played in a particular order, the invention provides an apparatus and method allowing the user to skip one or more songs without having an unintended delay between skips. This is accomplished by pre-buffering the first ten seconds of each of the next several songs on the list so that, should the user choose to skip to any of the next several songs, the pre-buffered ten seconds of the target song is already available to be played. The apparatus starts to play the pre-buffered port of the target song and starts to download the rest of it at the same time. Because the initial buffering time for the rest of the target song is less than ten seconds, the target song is played smoothly.
US07797062B2
The invention provides control systems and methodologies for controlling a process having one or more motorized pumps and associated motor drives, which provide for optimized process performance according to one or more performance criteria, such as efficiency, component life expectancy, safety, emissions, noise, vibration, operational cost, or the like. More particularly, the subject invention provides for employing machine diagnostic and/or prognostic information in connection with optimizing an overall business operation over a time horizon.
US07797058B2
Devices, systems, and methods for recording, and/or stimulation, and/or blocking of a nerve make use of a molded cuff electrode. An electrically conductive surface is coupled to an inside surface of the cuff's elastic body. The electrically conductive surface and the body assume a coiled configuration in its natural state. An applicator tool having a body and a slider are used to implant the cuff electrode about a nerve.
US07797054B2
A medical system for electrical stimulation includes a first column of electrodes, a second column of electrodes, an expandable member disposed between first and second columns, and an expansion mechanism adapted to transmit an externally applied pressure to the expandable member. The pressure expands the expandable member in order to force the first column of electrodes apart from the second column of electrodes. The first and second columns, disposed side-by-side, may be inserted through a percutaneous needle and into a epidural space, alongside a spinal cord; after insertion, the first column may be forced apart from the second column by applying the pressure to the expandable member.
US07797036B2
Cardiac monitoring and/or stimulation methods and systems that provide one or more of monitoring, diagnosing, defibrillation, and pacing. Cardiac signal separation is employed to detect, monitor, track and/or trend ischemia using cardiac activation sequence information. Ischemia detection may involve sensing composite cardiac signals using implantable electrodes, and performing a signal separation that produces one or more cardiac activation signal vectors associated with one or more cardiac activation sequences. A change in the signal vector may be detected using subsequent separations. The change may be an elevation or depression of the ST segment of a cardiac cycle or other change indicative of myocardial ischemia, myocardial infarction, or other pathological change. The change may be used to predict, quantify, and/or qualify an event such as an arrhythmia, a myocardial infarction, or other pathologic change. Information associated with the vectors may be stored and used to track the vectors.
US07797033B2
The present invention broadly provides an improved ingestible capsule (28) that is arranged to sense one or more physiological parameters within a mammalian body, an to transmit such parameters to an extra-corporeal receiver (50). In use, the capsule and receiver perform the method of determining the real-time location of the capsule within a tract of a mammal. This method includes the steps of providing the capsule, the capsule having one or more sensors, ingesting the capsule, transmitting a signal from the capsule, receiving the transmitted signal, and determining the real-time location of the capsule within the tract as a function of the received signal. The received signal may also indicate the value of one or more sensed parameters.
US07797028B2
Systems and methods for processing sensor analyte data, including initiating calibration, updating calibration, evaluating clinical acceptability of reference and sensor analyte data, and evaluating the quality of sensor calibration. During initial calibration, the analyte sensor data is evaluated over a period of time to determine stability of the sensor. The sensor may be calibrated using a calibration set of one or more matched sensor and reference analyte data pairs. The calibration may be updated after evaluating the calibration set for best calibration based on inclusion criteria with newly received reference analyte data. Fail-safe mechanisms are provided based on clinical acceptability of reference and analyte data and quality of sensor calibration. Algorithms provide for optimized prospective and retrospective analysis of estimated blood analyte data from an analyte sensor.
US07797018B2
A method and apparatus for selecting one of a plurality of multi-band access points (APs) to associate with a multi-band wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) are disclosed. The multi-band APs broadcast frequency band information regarding multiple frequency bands on which the multi-band AP is configured to operate. The multi-band WTRU selects a particular multi-band AP to associate with and a frequency band to use to communicate with the selected multi-band AP based on the frequency band information. If the multi-band WTRU receives frequency band information from the selected multi-band AP which indicates that a characteristic, (e.g., throughput, path loss, load, capacity, backhaul), of the selected frequency band is unacceptable, the multi-band WTRU determines whether to disassociate with the selected multi-band AP or to continue to associate with the selected multi-band AP via a different frequency band.
US07797015B2
A device and method for controlling radio-frequency power in a wireless terminal are provided, by which radio-frequency power transmitted from the wireless terminal to a base station is flexibly controlled and transmitted. The device includes a memory that stores an RF power table including the types of power control levels, at least one power classified by the types of power control levels, and at least one received signal strength of the wireless terminal classified by the power, a control unit that performs control to determine the received signal strength of the wireless terminal when a base station requests a change in power control level, to extract a voltage that generates corresponding RF power to the power control level requested to be changed, according to the determined received signal strength of the wireless terminal, and to amplify extracted voltage to transmit to the base station corresponding RF power to the power control level requested to be changed, and a transmission unit that, under the control of the control unit, amplifies the extracted voltage so as to generate corresponding RF power to the power control level requested to be changed, and transmits the same to the base station.
US07797002B2
In a radio access network in which a radio network controller is subjected to load distribution by a plurality of controllers, one of the controllers is set as a page controller that processes a paging message transmitted from a core network to the radio access network. When the paging control apparatus receives the paging message transmitted from the core network to the radio access network, the paging control apparatus judges a transmission destination of the paging message and transmits the paging message to the controllers that control a base station at the transmission destination.
US07796997B2
Disclosed is a cellular-based wireless communication system, and more particularly a method for allocating resources for data transmission in a cellular-based wireless communication system employing a multicarrier scheme. Frequency resources are divided into time slots defined by one frame and the divided time slots are allocated to an uplink and the downlink. During a predetermined time period, the frequency resources are allocated as resources for transmitting sync preambles. During a next predetermined time period, the frequency resources are allocated in such a manner that the frequency resources for sectors are successively and repeatedly used as resources for transmitting broadcasting messages on a sector-by-sector basis. In the remaining time slots, except the time slots for transmitting the preambles and the broadcasting messages, the frequency resources are allocated as resources for transmitting channel estimation midambles for dynamic channel allocation.
US07796977B2
In one illustrative example disclosed, a mobile communication device includes a user interface, a processor, and a wireless transmitter. The user interface includes, among other things, a visual display which is part of a graphical user interface (GUI). For configuring a voice mailbox at a remote voicemail system, the GUI visually displays a user input prompt for voice mailbox configuration information which corresponds to an audible user input prompt provided by the voicemail system. The user input prompt may be, for example, a prompt for a user password, an audible voicemail greeting, or an audible user name for the voice mailbox. Through the user interface, the voice mailbox configuration information is received by the processor in response to the user input prompt and transmitted to the voicemail system by the wireless transmitter. Advantageously, the mobile device provides a consistent user-friendly GUI for voice mailbox configuration as well as for its primary applications.
US07796974B2
An apparatus for activating a cellular telephone within a cellular telecommunications network. A PCMCIA card interacts with a controller to display required programming information and questions. A user of the cellular telephone inputs responses to questions on a display. The user responses are transmitted to a system administrator at a customer activation center via a mobile telephone switching office in the cellular telecommunications network. The system administrator provides any necessary information for activating the cellular telephone. In an alternative embodiment of the invention, a personal computer is connected to cellular telephone and the PCMCIA card is connected to the personal computer. Information for the user may be shown on either the display of the cellular telephone or on a display of the personal computer. The user may input information and responses to questions via a user input device provided as part of the display or as part of the personal computer. User input is provided to the cellular telephone to activate and program the cellular telephone for operation on the cellular telecommunications network.
US07796969B2
A silicon-on-insulator (SOI) RF switch adapted for improved power handling capability using a reduced number of transistors is described. In one embodiment, an RF switch includes pairs of switching and shunting stacked transistor groupings to selectively couple RF signals between a plurality of input/output nodes and a common RF node. The switching and shunting stacked transistor groupings comprise one or more MOSFET transistors connected together in a “stacked” or serial configuration. In one embodiment, the transistor groupings are “symmetrically” stacked in the RF switch (i.e., the transistor groupings all comprise an identical number of transistors). In another embodiment, the transistor groupings are “asymmetrically” stacked in the RF switch (i.e., at least one transistor grouping comprises a number of transistors that is unequal to the number of transistors comprising at least one other transistor grouping). The stacked configuration of the transistor groupings enable the RF switch to withstand RF signals of varying and increased power levels. The asymmetrically stacked transistor grouping RF switch facilitates area-efficient implementation of the RF switch in an integrated circuit. Maximum input and output signal power levels can be withstood using a reduced number of stacked transistors.
US07796964B2
A radio signal receiver includes an input for receiving an input signal having an input carrier frequency modulated by a payload signal to be detected. A frequency converter changes the carrier frequency of the input signal and produces an intermediate signal that is an image of the input signal, and has a carrier frequency equal to an intermediate frequency. A filter circuit filters the intermediate signal. A demodulator eliminates a component, with a frequency equal to the intermediate frequency, from the filtered intermediate frequency, and produces the payload signal. The receiver also includes a detection circuit to produce a level signal representative of a level of the payload signal. A control circuit applies a control signal representative of the level signal to a control input of the frequency converter, the filter circuit and the demodulator.
US07796962B2
A digital demodulating apparatus includes a tuner that selectively receives one of frequency bands, and a demodulator that demodulates a signal from the tuner. The apparatus further includes a measuring unit that measures on each carrier wave the intensity of noise to be contained in the signal from the tuner due to an interfering wave contained in the signal received by the tuner; a distribution estimating unit that estimates the distribution of interfering waves in at least one of the received frequency band and a frequency band neighboring the received frequency band, based on the distribution of noises in the frequency band measured on each carrier wave; a noise change deriving unit that derives a change in the intensity of noise to be contained in the signal from the tuner, to the power to be supplied to a circuit element; and a power updating unit that updates the value of the power to be supplied to the circuit element within a range in which the intensity of noise to be contained in the signal from the tuner is less than a noise reference value, based on the derived change in the intensity of noise to the power to supply.
US07796951B2
A lightning detector for lightning detection and a lightning detection method, wherein the lightning detector includes a Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM) digital broadcasting system receiver having an analog front-end and a digital base-band; wherein with the analog front-end DRM receiver the radio signal from lightning can be detected when a DRM receiver application and a lightning detection application operate in the same AM band application engine.
US07796940B2
A portable MP3 player, which includes radio capability therein. The device includes a radio part which enables receiving radio, either over the airwaves, or via a network. The radio information can be time shared for later use, and sequences within the radio information can be identified for storage within the memory. The memory can store compressed information, such as MP3 information, indicative of songs which are stored. The memory can also store information that is received over the radio.
US07796938B2
A radio transmission apparatus and method for multicasting or broadcasting common data to a plurality of radio receiving apparatuses. The apparatus and method acquire per-subcarrier reception quality information from a radio receiving apparatus. A subcarrier is selected for the multicasting or broadcasting among a plurality of subcarriers, each of which has a different frequency, based on the acquired per-subcarrier reception quality information. And the transmission power of the selected subcarrier is controlled.
US07796924B2
A toner container installed in an image forming apparatus, the toner container including a toner container main body having a predetermined length and which accommodates toner, a mixer which stirs the toner in the toner container main body, a discharge port through which the toner in the toner container main body is discharged from the toner container main body, a screw having one end projected from one end surface of the toner container main body, the screw being rotated to convey the toner from the toner container main body to the discharge port, a coupling portion provided at the one end of the screw and rotated by a driving portion provided in the image forming apparatus, and a protruding portion provided on an outer peripheral surface of the coupling portion.
US07796917B2
A system and method to replace a transfer belt of a color laser printer transfer belt assembly without replacing the entire assembly, including one or more novel holding fixtures and a method for releasing the tension on the transfer belt prior to removal of the transfer belt from the assembly, then reapplying tension to a replacement transfer belt and, optionally, replacing the motor assembly and/or the microchip that controls operation of the transfer belt assembly.
US07796916B2
An image forming apparatus includes first and second image forming units having, respectively, first and second image bearing members, detachably mountable to a main assembly of the image forming apparatus. The apparatus also includes a transfer device transferring toner images formed on the first and second image bearing members onto a transfer medium, an opening through which the first and second image forming units are passable during mounting and demounting operations, an openable member, and a guide for guiding, during mounting and demounting, the first and/or second image forming units when the openable member is in the open position. At least a part of the guide enters a space between the first and second image forming units when the openable member is in the close position.
US07796914B2
A toner container includes a storing body that stores toner, a toner reception opening that receives the toner from the toner storing body, a shutter opening, a cylindrical shutter, and an O-shaped elastic ring disposed at the shutter opening configured to seal a space between the shutter opening and the shutter. The shutter receives a nozzle of an image forming apparatus and the cylindrical shutter opens and closes the shutter opening when moved by a nozzle of the image forming apparatus inserted into the shutter opening. When the nozzle is disposed through the shutter opening, the toner which is received from the toner reception opening is subsequently received by the nozzle of the image forming apparatus.
US07796910B2
In an image forming apparatus 1 capable of reserving a plurality of printing jobs, the suspended state retention time for retaining the suspended state is preset by the operation of an operation section 142. When a printing job during output operation has been suspended, a timing section 17 starts to measure the preset suspended state retention time. If the printing job having been suspended is not resumed even after the lapse of the suspended state retention time and there is a subsequent printable job, the order of the printing jobs is changed and the subsequent printing job is executed.
US07796907B2
Disclosed are an electrophotographic apparatus for forming images on sheets, and corresponding methods. The electrophotographic apparatus includes a fuser web for fusing toner particles to the sheets to form the images, a sensor for detecting a defect position of at least one defect in the fuser web, and a controller that receives the defect position of the at least one defect on the fuser web from the sensor, wherein the controller positions the fuser web relative to the sheets to avoid the at least one defect from coming into contact with the toner on the sheets during fusing of the toner particles to the sheets.
US07796905B2
A multicolor image forming apparatus includes: a photosensitive belt unit comprising; a driving roller; a driven roller; a photosensitive belt having a joint, and a charger charging a surface of the photosensitive belt; an exposure device forming an electrostatic latent image, based on image information of each color, on the photosensitive belt; a plurality of developing devices storing different color developers, and an intermediate transfer unit performing a first transfer by sequentially superimposing each color developer image formed on the photosensitive belt. The photosensitive belt is suspended around the driving roller and the driven roller and is rotated and driven by the driving roller. Each developing device contacts and retracts from the photosensitive belt so as to develop the electrostatic latent image into a visible image using each color developer. At least one developing device can retract from the photosensitive belt at a region other than an image region.
US07796903B2
A charging apparatus which is excellent in charging uniformity and thus allows a to-be-charged body to be charged uniformly and in which the generation of discharge products can be reduced, is provided. In the charging apparatus, ions are generated under the difference in electrical potential between the discharge electrode and the induction electrode produced in the ion generating section. The generated ions are caused to flow toward the counter electrode, whereupon the to-be-charged body arranged between the ion generating section and the counter electrode is charged.
US07796900B2
An electrostatographic printer includes a development housing for supplying developer to an image receptor, and a replenisher in communication with the development housing. In a basic state, a regular supply of developer having a first predetermined TC is supplied. In a special state, a special supply of developer having a second predetermined TC is supplied. In response to determining the printer should be in the special state, the special supply of developer is requested to be installed in the printer, such as through Internet ordering to a vendor. The vendor can also “custom-blend” a developer formulation based on transmitted machine conditions.
US07796898B2
Methods and apparatus (100) for composing, generating and transmitting information-bearing optical signals are provided. An information-bearing electrical signal is composed (108) having desirable spectral properties, preferably configured to ensure that undesired interference between electrical spectral components generated in a square-law direct detection process (120) at a corresponding optical receiver (104) is substantially avoided. Predistortion (110) is advantageously applied to transmitted signals, in order to account for a nonlinear relationship arising in a modulation process (114) between electrical signal amplitude and corresponding optical field amplitude. Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) techniques may be applied to composed signals having the desired characteristics, and additionally may facilitate the application of frequency domain equalisation (128) in order to mitigate transmission impairments, including dispersion. Improvements in received signal quality, and/or transmission distance, may thereby be achieved, along with simplification of receiver configuration and operation.
US07796892B2
An optical transceiver module includes a wireless communications device that provides the transceiver module with the ability to receive wireless signals in and/or transmit wireless signals from the optical transceiver module. The wireless communications device may have various configurations for providing various capabilities, such as, for example, a wireless modem, a wireless transmitter, a wireless receiver, a wireless transceiver, and a wireless network access point. The wireless communications device may be configured to transmit and/or receive wireless signals corresponding to, for example, calls, pages, and data transfers.
US07796889B1
A system for controlling diverse infrared controlled devices, capable of emulating infrared signals provided by diverse infrared remote controls by recording them, and then using information derived from the recorded signals to reproduce the signals. A received infrared signal is sampled, stored, edge trimmed and compressed into a table of entries. Each entry indicates a level and a length of a portion of the associated infrared signal having that level. The compression also eliminates transients from the captured infrared signal. The table fully describes the captured infrared signal. A table header may contain the frequency at which the captured infrared signal was sampled, and the number of table entries used to describe the signal. During playback, a file containing the table for a user selected infrared signal may be opened and read into a dynamic memory. The vector table header information may be used to determine the number of stored vector table entries, and to determine the sampling rate at which the associated infrared signal was captured. An infrared shift register in specialized hardware shifts out one bit of data every sampling cycle until each bit of data described by each entry in the vector table has been transmitted. The disclosed system may be conveniently embodied to be voice controlled, to enable voice control over all infrared remote controlled devices in a disabled user's living environment.
US07796888B2
A method and system for ensuring confidentiality of signal transmission in a point-to-multipoint data transmission network like Ethernet passive optical network, including at least one hub, at least one transmission medium and at least one station connected to the hub via the transmission medium. When an upstream signal is transmitted from a first station, the upstream signal is reflected by at least one disturbing reflector for producing a disturbing reflection. The disturbing reflection combines with a second reflection of the upstream signal and renders the second reflection undecodable by a second station.
US07796886B2
Optical signals generated from customer premise equipment (CPE) at the edges of the metro domain networks are facilitated. The CPEs connect to extension terminals that transform the optical signal originating at the CPE into a format for long haul transmission. The optical signal then propagates to a primary terminal where the signal is multiplexed with other optical signals from other extension terminals. The multiplexed signals are then transmitted to a second primary terminal. The signal is then demultiplexed from other optical signals and transmitted to the proper extension terminal. At the extension terminal, the demultiplexed optical signal is transformed from its LH format back into a format suitable for inter-connection to a CPE. The signal undergoes optical-to-electrical conversion only at the extension terminals or end points, which can be located at lessee's facility. The only equipment located in lessor's facility is the primary terminal containing line amplifiers and add/drop nodes.
US07796874B2
An imaging system, comprising a battery checker, an anti-shake controller, and an image processor, is provided. The imaging system is able to carry out mechanical and electronic anti-shake functions. The battery checker detects available charge of a battery. The anti-shake controller orders the mechanical anti-shake function to be carried out if the available charge is greater than a first threshold value. The anti-shake controller orders the electronic anti-shake function to be carried out if the available charge is less than the first threshold value. The image processor treats an image captured in a second area in the imaging area as a captured moving image while the mechanical anti-shake function is carried out. The size of the second area is second size, which is determined according to the available charge.
US07796871B2
An apparatus and a method for taking a panoramic photograph are provided. While a lens of the apparatus is rotated, an angular velocity sensor such as a gyroscope outputs an angular velocity and calculates therefrom a rotation angle of the lens. Accordingly, a user can capture sequential image segments for the panoramic photograph at suitable rotation angles. Since unintended rotations due to a user's hand trembling as well as user's intended rotations can be detected, it may be easy to align overlapped portions of adjacent images and thereby to obtain suitable images for panoramic photograph combination. Also, a user can be informed of a capturable section and a rotating direction by using the calculated angular velocity, so the apparatus may promote a user's convenience and without the need for a burdensome tripod.
US07796870B2
A method for controlling a lighting source in a capsule camera improves image quality by avoiding over-exposure or under-exposure in all regions of an image, while concurrently reducing significantly power dissipation in the capsule camera. A capsule camera using the method includes: (1) one or more sensor arrays each having one or more pixels in one or more designated regions in the field of view of the capsule camera; (2) lighting elements each providing illumination to one or more of the designated regions; and (3) a control unit that (a) extracts a parameter value from the pixels of each region; (b) evaluates the parameter value at each region; and (c) adjusts the lighting elements providing illumination to each region according to the evaluation. The parameter value may be an average value of the pixels. The purpose of the adjustment is to bring the parameter value for the region to within a predetermined range. In one embodiment, the control unit adjusts an amount of light provided by each lighting element, which may be given by integrating a light intensity of the lighting element over time. In one implementation, the light intensity in each lighting element is substantially constant and the control unit adjusts an exposure time for each lighting element. The lighting element may be, for example, a light emitting diode.
US07796868B2
Devices for heating liquids have been known for a long time. The applications of these devices can also be of very diverse nature. Such heating devices are thus for instance already applied on a large scale as, or applied as component in, water kettles, dishwashers, washing machines, coffee-making machines, shower water heaters and the like. The invention relates to a device for heating liquids. The invention also relates to a base structure for use in such a device. The invention further relates to a method for heating liquids.
US07796866B2
A digital versatile disc (DVD) recording apparatus and a cell-by-cell edition method using the same are provided. The DVD recording apparatus records images on a DVD in video format when the DVD is loaded on a DVD drive. The cell-by-cell edition method comprises recording the image on the DVD and temporarily storing cell information in relation to a plurality of cells constituting the image; displaying a representative image of the plurality of cells on a graphical user interface (GUI) which is connected to the DVD recording apparatus; and creating navigation data using the cell information when a user edits the plurality of cells while viewing the representative image, and storing the created navigation data on the DVD.
US07796863B2
Provided is a generating apparatus that generates a DVD-Video volume image, and a BD-ROM volume image, that each have: a digital stream, path information, and a jump table, where in the respective digital streams, a button command to be executed by a playback apparatus, in playing back the digital stream, is incorporated. A BD-scenario generating apparatus 7 obtains path information, a jump table, and a button command, which are for the BD-ROM, by converting any one of the description schemes for the path information, the jump table, and the button command for the DVD-Video.
US07796862B2
A top menu is configured to provide information about chapters contained in a recording medium when it is finalized. From an optical disk as a recording medium, a title retrieval section reads title information about each title of motion picture data recorded on the optical disk. A chapter retrieval section reads chapter information about each chapter in the corresponding title based on the title information obtained in this manner. Based on the chapter information obtained in this manner, a representative picture selection section selects a representative picture in each chapter. A menu generation section generates the top menu including a display area to reproduce chapters based on the chapter information obtained by the chapter retrieval section.
US07796859B2
A DVD reproducing apparatus having an A-B repeat function of repeating reproduction between point A set on a VOBU of plural VOBUs and point B set on a VOBU behind the point A, includes an NV_PCK storage unit that stores an address data stored in an NV_PCK of the VOBU where the point A and the point B are set, a judgment unit that judges whether or not a V_PCK is included in the VOBU where the point A is set, an acquisition unit that acquires an address data of a nearest VOBU before the VOBU where the point A is set and having a V_PCK if the judgment unit judges that a V_PCK is not included in the VOBU where the point A is set, and a reproduction unit that reproduces an image of a VOBU based on an address data acquired by the acquisition unit.
US07796852B2
An apparatus includes an optical wave guide and a ferrule. The optical wave guide has a prespecified horizontal-positioning surface and a prespecified vertical-positioning surface. The ferrule is to precisely couple with the optical wave guide. The ferrule defines a first datum plane mating with the prespecified vertical-positioning surface of the optical wave guide to precisely mechanically vertically position the optical wave guide within the ferrule. The ferrule defines a second datum plane mating with the prespecified horizontal-positioning surface of the optical wave guide to precisely mechanically horizontally position the optical wave guide within the ferrule.
US07796847B2
Methods for applying electrical stimuli to optical micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) devices are disclosed. Electrical stimuli may be applied to one or more released current carrying elements mounted above a supporting substrate biased to minimize electrostatic force between the one or more current released current carrying elements and the supporting substrate. Additionally, the electrical stimuli bias minimizes electrical potential difference between the one or more released current carrying elements and one or more non-current carrying elements mounted above the supporting substrate that come in contact or close proximity during operation of the one or more released current carrying elements.
US07796831B2
A camera is provided that includes a face detection means, an AE&AWB detection circuit, and a processor. The face detection means detects a face from an input image signal and extracts a facial region comprising the face and an upper body region. The AE&AWB detection circuit calculates a brightness appraisal amount on the basis of brightness of the facial region and the upper body region extracted by the face detection circuit. The processor calculates an exposure amount on the basis of the brightness appraisal amount calculated by the AE&AWB detection circuit.
US07796826B2
The present invention relates generally to steganography and digital watermarking. One method recites: encoding content with a plural-bit digital watermark in accordance with initial encoding parameters; determining an assessment of the encoded plural-bit digital watermark in each of two or more portions of the content; for each of the two or more portions of the content, adjusting at least one of the initial encoding parameters according to a determined assessment for a respective portion of the content; and encoding the content with said plural-bit watermark in accordance with adjusted encoding parameters. Other methods are provided and claimed as well.
US07796823B1
3D graphics rendering includes texture compression including joint compression of related textures by using one texture to predict the other, object-based compression for non-rectangular textures, and multitexturing with vector quantization.
US07796819B2
Provided are an apparatus and method for character recognition that analyze three-dimensional motion of a user using an acceleration sensor and thereby perform character input and character recognition. The apparatus and method easily discern each stroke on the basis of a direction of motion at the beginning portion and end portion of the stroke, and recognize a character using a combination of the strokes, thereby enabling realization of a small-sized motion-based character input system.
US07796815B2
Systems and methods are described for performing image analysis. A computer-implemented method for analyzing images may include quantitatively analyzing image data to identify image objects relative to a background portion of the image according to predefined object criteria, the image data including a plurality of image objects that represent objects in a sample distributed across a substrate. The identified image objects are further clustered into groups or colonies of the identified image objects according to predetermined clustering criteria.
US07796802B2
An inspection operator views features in a part through a transparent touch screen display, and records defects using on-screen annotations which are displayed in visually associated relationship to the corresponding defects. The operator may also call up part attribute information on the display screen. A 3-D position sensing system on the display determines the position and orientation of the display relative to the part, and a computer uses the position information to perform spatial translations which place the display and the part in a common coordinate system. A camera on the display records an electronic image of the part which is combined with the part attribute information and the annotations viewed by the operator on the display.
US07796798B2
A system and method for implementing frequency domain based magnetic ink character recognition (MICR). A system is provided that includes: a segmentation system for segmenting inputted MICR data into sets of temporal data for inputted characters; a Fourier system for generating a set of Fourier components from temporal data for an inputted character; a normalization system for normalizing the set of Fourier components to generate a normalized set of Fourier components; and a matching system for comparing the normalized set of Fourier components with each of a set of reference waveforms to determine an identity of the inputted character.
US07796789B2
A three dimensional ultrasonic diagnostic imaging system is operated to guide or observe the operation of an invasive medical device (30) in three dimensions. An interventional system (20) is used to operate the invasive medical device (30) and produces spatially-based information relating to the activity of the invasive medical device (30). The spatially-based information from the interventional system (20) is merged into the three dimensional ultrasonic image data to produce a live three dimensional image of the invasive medical device (30) or its activity. In one embodiment the locations where the activity of the invasive medical device (30) is performed is recorded and displayed in the three dimensional ultrasonic image. The three dimensional ultrasonic image may be shown as an anatomical volume rendered image or as a wire frame model (130) of the anatomy. In another embodiment an integrated three dimensional ultrasonic imaging and invasive device system is described.
US07796788B2
In an electrophotographic marking system a guard is provided to prevent fingerprint smears or markings on a platen glass. When fingerprint images are made, oil and other debris from the fingers mark the platen and cause subsequent images to reproduce these markings. This guard protects the platen from said marks via a convenient and economical expedient.
US07796785B2
The image extracting apparatus according to the present invention includes: a candidate image extracting section for extracting a moving image component including the facial image of a predetermined person from a moving image; and a representative image extracting section for extracting the moving image component including the facial image of the predetermined person which is more different from the facial image of the predetermined person with the usual facial expression among the plurality of moving image components extracted by the candidate image extracting section.
US07796783B2
The motion detection device includes an oblique correlation detection section, a motion detection section and a motion determination section. The oblique correlation detection section detects a correlation in an oblique direction (oblique correlation) of a composite video signal. The motion detection section detects a motion amount based on an inter-frame difference of the composite video signal. The motion determination section determines the presence/absence of a motion in the composite video signal based on the motion amount detected by the motion detection section. The motion determination section determines the presence/absence of the motion considering the detection results of the oblique correlation by the oblique correlation detection section.
US07796767B2
A howling detector is provided which can discriminate between howling and a signal having a strong narrow-band component, thereby detecting howling with higher accuracy. The howling analyzer includes a frequency analyzing section for analyzing a frequency of a time signal, a level calculating section for calculating a level of a signal output from the frequency analyzing section, a howling detecting section for deciding whether howling occurs or not by analyzing the level having been calculated by the level calculating section, a periodic signal detecting section for deciding whether or not time progression of the level having been calculated by the level calculating section has periodicity, and a howling deciding section for finally deciding whether howling occurs or not based on decision results of the howling detecting section and the periodic signal detecting section.
US07796766B2
The invention relates to a method of processing an input signal into a phantomized signal, including adding at least one attenuated delayed signal to the input signal, the phantomized signal having at least one delayed attenuated signal and the input signal. A phantomized signal according to the invention offers a new and impressive integration of a center channel signal of a multi channel audio system into the complete audio image provided by the system.
US07796757B2
According to a first aspect there is provided systems and methods for receiving an encrypted signal from a portable communication device, the encrypted signal containing information associated with a command; and decrypting the encrypted signal to enable a set-top box to execute the command. According to a second aspect there is provided systems and methods for encrypting information to generate an encrypted signal, the information associated with a command entered via a control; and communicating the encrypted signal to the set-top box, the encrypted signal for decryption at the set-top box to enable execution of the command to operate the set-top box.
US07796753B2
This invention relates generally to a method and apparatus, as implemented by a software program on a computer system, for digitally producing counterfeit-deterring scrambled or encoded indicia images. This method and system are capable of combining a source image with a latent image so the scrambled latent image is visible only when viewed through a special decoder lens. The digital processing allows different latent images to be encoded according to different parameters. Additionally, latent images might be encoded into single component colors of an original visible image, at various angles from each other.
US07796750B2
A method for protecting an electronic entity with encrypted access, against DFA (Differential Fault Analysis) attacks which includes: storing the result of a selected step (Rm, Kn) of an iterative process forming part of the cryptographic algorithm and in performing once more at least part of the steps of the iterative process up to a new computation of a result corresponding to the one which has been stored, comparing the two results and denying distribution of an encrypted message (MC) if they are different.
US07796745B2
In one embodiment, a method for automatically completing a call includes receiving a text message containing a telephone number of a target party, extracting the telephone number from the text message, and providing the telephone number to a telephone switching control.
US07796742B1
A system and method for simplified provisioning is provided. The method comprises storing information associated with a user during a non-provisioning event. The information is utilized to pre-fill a registration related to a provisioning event. One or more communications are forwarded to the user requesting information to complete the registration for the provisioning event based on the information stored.
US07796736B2
An X-ray-generator irradiates X-rays at a subject. The X-ray-detector detects the X-rays that have permeated the subject. The rotating body on which the X-ray-generator and the X-ray-detector are installed rotates around the subject. The rotating body is rotated by the drive part. The power source supplies electrical power to the drive part. The step-down part lowers the voltage of the regenerative electrical power generated at the drive part during the deceleration of the rotating body. The accumulation part charges the lowered electrical power. The step-up part raises the voltage of the electrical power from the accumulation part and supplies electrical power to the drive part.
US07796730B2
The present disclosure provides an irradiation treatment apparatus having a generally vertical patient support surface; a patient securing mechanism arranged to secure a patient in a fixed relation to the patient support surface; a rotation platform secured at one end of the patient support surface and arranged to rotate the patient support surface about a generally vertical axis and optionally translate the patient support surface at least partially about a plane generally orthogonal to the generally vertical axis; an imager exhibiting a first mode in which the imager occludes radiation from a fixed beam irradiation source and a second mode in which the imager enables irradiation from the fixed beam irradiation source; and a vertical translation mechanism in communication with the patient support surface and arranged to translate the patient support surface along the generally vertical axis from a loading position to an irradiation position.
US07796721B2
Over the years, ring counter and prescalers have been used in a variety of microelectronic applications, including Phased Locked Loops or PLLs. All of these applications have experienced both decreases in size and increases in speed. As a result, current-mode logic or CML has come into use in some high speed applications, calling for alternative designs for components such as prescalers. Here, a divide-by-three prescaler is described that uses internal states from mater-slave flip-flop pairs and that is well-suited for microelectronics that employ CML.
US07796720B1
A material is exposed to a neutron flux by distributing it in a neutron-diffusing medium surrounding a neutron source. The diffusing medium is transparent to neutrons and so arranged that neutron scattering substantially enhances the neutron flux to which the material is exposed. Such enhanced neutron exposure may be used to produce useful radio-isotopes, in particular for medical applications, from the transmutation of readily-available isotopes included in the exposed material. It may also be used to efficiently transmute long-lived radioactive wastes, such as those recovered from spent nuclear fuel. The use of heavy elements, such as lead and/or bismuth, as the diffusing medium is particularly of interest, since it results in a slowly decreasing scan through the neutron energy spectrum, thereby permitting very efficient resonant neutron captures in the exposed material.
US07796719B2
The invention discloses a signal detection apparatus and method thereof for detecting whether an input signal of a set of serial ATA signals is an out of band (OOB) signal. The signal detection apparatus includes a calibrated clock generation device, a signal processor, and a logic determination device. The calibrated clock generation device generates a sampling clock signal according to a predetermined clock signal. The signal processor generates a plurality of detection results based on the sampling clock signal and the input signal. The logic determination device receives the plural of detection results and determines whether the input signal is the OOB signal.
US07796712B2
A DTV receiver includes a tuner tuning to a channel to receive a broadcast signal, and a demodulator demodulating the broadcast signal. The receiver further includes a first decoder which decodes main and enhanced data included in the demodulated signal by calculating soft decision values for the enhanced data and hard decision values for the main data. The receiver further includes a second decoder for decoding the main and enhanced data for first forward error correction, and a third decoder for decoding the FEC-decoded enhanced data for second forward error correction.
US07796710B2
A digital demodulator includes a resonator having a resonance frequency same as a carrier frequency to store a charge corresponding to a digital signal modulated by phase shift keying, a capacitor to store the charge of the resonator, an amplifier including an input node and an output node between which the capacitor is connected to convert a stored charge of the capacitor into a voltage signal, and a controller configured to accumulate in the resonator the charge induced by the frequency signal modulated by phase shift keying in a first control mode and configured to transfer the charge of the resonator to the capacitor in a second control mode, to output the voltage signal corresponding to the stored charge of the capacitor from the output node of the amplifier.
US07796708B2
A method for communication using a modulation scheme defined in a signal space includes determining demodulation confidence levels at a plurality of points distributed over the signal space. Weights are assigned to the respective points responsively to the demodulation confidence levels. A signal is received and demodulated using an adaptive loop so as to derive a corresponding signal point in the signal space. The adaptive loop is adjusted responsively to a weight assigned to the derived signal point.
US07796706B2
Aspects of the invention are directed to service and channel discovery in a digital broadcast network. A pilot synchronization symbol, which has known characteristics, is included as a first symbol of digital broadcast frames. The pilot symbol, which can be decoded without having to resort to trial and error methods, contains parameters for the rest of the signal. In another aspect of the invention, at least two pilot symbols may be defined and used at the beginning of each frame. The at least two pilot symbols P1 and P2 may enable fast channel search and service discovery within the frame. Signaling may be realized as a combination of L1 and L2 signaling.
US07796705B2
With the current initialization procedures defined in the VDSL and ADSL standards, even though the xDSL system could operate in Showtime in an impulse noise environment where symbols are being corrupted, the transceivers would not be able to reach Showtime because initialization would fail due to initialization message failure. Through the use of an improved initialization procedure for communication systems, operation in environments with higher levels of impulse noise is possible.
US07796701B2
A digital decoder for a transmitting and receiving-multi-antenna digital wireless transmission chain for determining symbols transmitted in linear space-time coded transmission signals based on a convolutional binary coding, the digital decoder being fed by: —a received symbols signal vector Z, and a matrix C resulting from the product of a transmission channel matrix H and a space-time coding matrix M for the transmission including: a comprehensive space-time decoder for calculating the metric between each possible codeword and the received symbols signal vector Z, and for generating as output all the metrics thus calculated; and a binary decoder for determining, by using all the metrics generated as probabilities of transitions between states of the binary decoder, the most probable path taken during the convolutional coding, and for deducing from these the symbols transmitted.
US07796699B2
A new protocol is proposed for transmission of data through lines such as telephone lines. The tones of a signal are associated into groups 10, 11, and tone ordering, gain selection, and/or bit swapping within the processing system are done within the members of a group 10, 11. This idea is applicable both to tone ordering etc., following the training stage, and also to the dynamic configuration changes subsequently, for example, bit swapping. The computational cost of coding and decoding the data is reduced (compared to treating all the tones of a given direction equivalently), and the invention makes it possible to significantly reduce the memory requirements of the encoder and decoder.
US07796698B2
A receiver uses knowledge of pilot symbols transmitted by a neighboring sector to reduce interference in a received data symbol. The received data symbol is transmitted on one or more data subcarriers in a first sector. Overlapping pilot symbols transmitted on overlapping pilot carriers in a second sector are determined and used to generate channel estimates for the overlapping pilot carriers. The overlapping pilot symbols and pilot channel estimates are then used to reduce interference in the received data symbol.
US07796695B2
Disclosed is a method for allocating data and pilots, a transmitting method and device, a receiving method and device in an OFDMA system. A terminal partitions subcarrier groups and symbols from an uplink channel based on a basic pilot pattern generated by a specific reference, receives at least one subchannel based on the partitioned subcarrier groups and symbols, hops the subcarrier groups caused by the subchannel according to hopping patterns, allocates data, and differently positions the pilots per subcarrier group based on the basic pilot pattern. Accordingly, the probability of pilot collision between adjacent cells is reduced, and accuracy of channel estimation is increased through boosting the pilot subcarrier power.
US07796692B1
A video coding apparatus, a decoder and a method for deferring the decoding of blocks of pixel data not yet ready for decoding during which other blocks of pixel data can be decoded nearly immediately. By deferring decoding and allowing the decoder to continue to successive blocks, the decoder can reduce stalls in the decoding process, which in turn, can decrease idle time in the decoder as well as power consumption that otherwise occurs during such idle time. In one embodiment, an exemplary method decodes a bit stream representing video images. The method includes deblocking blocks of a first frame as first frame blocks, determining a block of a second frame depends on a reference block of the blocks, and deferring decoding of the block. In at least one embodiment, the method can include decoding other blocks of the second frame at least partially concurrent with deferring decoding of the block.
US07796689B2
An adaptive filter may include a unitary filter, a combiner, and an error estimator. The unitary filter may include a feedback portion to generate a feedback output and a feed forward portion to generate a feed forward output. The combiner may combine the feedback output and the feed forward output into a combined output. The error estimator may generate an error signal for the unitary filter based on the combined output.
US07796670B1
A diode laser pumped solid-state laser amplifier capable of homogenizing the distribution of heat dissipation levels on a section of a solid-state laser rod and not causing a bifocal phenomenon, and a diode laser pumped solid-state laser using the diode laser pumped solid-state laser amplifier. A diode laser pumped solid-state laser amplifier includes a solid-state laser rod having an optical axis along which a laser beam propagates and includes an active medium therein and a plurality of pumping sources having optical axes that run on a plane orthogonal to the axial core of the solid-state laser rod and are separated by a given distance from the axial core of the solid-state laser rod. When pumping light rays are projected on a plane orthogonal to the axial core of the solid-state laser rod, the plurality of pumping sources are located at equiangular intervals with respect to the axial core of the solid-state laser rod.
US07796665B2
The present invention provides a surface emitting laser having a novel structure which eliminates necessity to provide a low refractive index medium at an interface of a photonic crystal layer on the side of a substrate. A multilayer mirror (1300), an active layer (1200), and a refractive index periodic structure layer (1020) whose refractive index changes periodically are laminated in a direction perpendicular to a substrate (1500). The refractive index periodic structure layer is structured so as to separate a light having a wavelength λ perpendicularly incident on the refractive index periodic structure into at least a transmitted light and a diffracted light. The multilayer mirror is structured so as to have a reflectance with regard to the diffracted light higher than a reflectance with regard to the transmitted light. A resonant mode is realized within a waveguide including the refractive index periodic structure layer and the multilayer mirror.
US07796664B2
A GaN laser, includes a coating film on a front end surface through which laser light is emitted. The coating film includes a first insulating film in contact with the front end surface and a second insulating film on the first insulating film. The optical film thickness of the second insulating film is an odd multiple of λ/4 with respect to the wavelength λ of laser light produced by the semiconductor laser. The adhesion of the first insulating film to GaN is stronger than the adhesion of the second insulating film to GaN. The refractive index of the second insulating film is 2 to 2.3 thick. The first insulating film is 10 nm or less. The first insulating film is an oxide film having a stoichiometric composition.
US07796661B2
A semiconductor laser comprises: a semiconductor substrate and a lower cladding layer, an active layer, and an upper cladding layer on the semiconductor substrate. The layers form a resonator having opposed end surfaces. A ridge includes part of the upper cladding layer. The upper cladding layer in the ridge, proximate the resonator end surfaces, is thicker than the upper cladding layer in the ridge at a central part of the resonator.
US07796659B2
Pickup head circuits with a protection circuit capable of preventing unexpected large current flowing through a laser diode during power-on interval. A driving transistor is coupled between a laser diode and a first power voltage, an automatic laser power control (ALPC) circuit is coupled between the first power voltage and a second power voltage, controlling the driving transistor to drive the laser diode. A protection circuit is coupled between the power voltage and a control terminal of the driving transistor, forcing a voltage at the control terminal of the driving transistor to follow the first power voltage during a power-on interval.
US07796646B2
A method for virtual segmentation off-load in a logically partitioned data processing system is provided. A data transmission protocol stack formats a data message for segmentation off-load to form a virtual segmentation off-load package. The size of the data message is larger than a size of a maximum transmission unit. A partition manager firmware copies the virtual segmentation off-load package from a first logical partition to a virtual Ethernet adapter associated with a second logical partition. The virtual segmentation off-load package is copied without performing a segmentation operation on the data message associated with the virtual segmentation off-load package.
US07796645B2
A technique is provided for facilitating writing of messages to multiple adapters connected to a high speed switch in a distributed computing environment. The technique employs a first, relatively quick filter to initially test whether a previously used adapter of the multiple adapters should be used to send a new message. If the first filter fails to select the previously used adapter, then the technique includes employing a second, more complicated filter to determine which adapter of the multiple adapters should be used to send the message. The first filter includes a first set of tests, and the second filter includes a second set of tests.
US07796642B2
A system and a method for initializing a communication link for transmitting a data stream from a first computer through a synchronous optical communication network to a second computer are provided. The method includes transmitting a first request message in a first GFP data frame to a second computer. The method further includes transmitting a second acknowledgement message in a second GFP data frame from the second computer to the first computer. The method further includes initializing the communication link between the first computer and the second computer in response to the acknowledgement message.
US07796640B2
A method of replicating data on a source to a destination comprising the steps of: extracting data from a source via a user interface in a source format; converting the extracted data from the source's format into a destination format; and uploading the converted data to said destination.
US07796636B2
A TDMA communication apparatus is configured for transmitting DSC response signals while preventing overlapping with AIS. A CPU 1 computes the DSC transmission time length Tdsc of a DSC response command (S11) and detects the present time t0 (S12). CPU 1 computes an AIS transmission standby time length Taistx and compares it with the DSC transmission time length Tdsc (S13 to S14). Next, if the DSC transmission time length Tdsc is shorter, CPU 1 computes an AIS reception standby time length Taisrx and compares it with the DSC transmission time length Tdsc (S15 to S16). If the DSC transmission time length Tdsc is shorter, CPU 1 effectuates transmission control (S17).
US07796634B2
Selecting a profile for an interface of a network device includes accessing profile sequences, where each profile sequence corresponds to an interface. Each profile sequence includes profiles that provide parameters for communicating data. The following are repeated for a profile sequence for an interface until a link satisfies a sequence criterion or until a last profile of the profile sequence is reached to select a profile for the interface. A current profile is accessed, and a link for the interface is initiated according to the current profile. Whether the link for the interface satisfies the sequence criterion is determined. A next profile of the profile sequence is accessed if the link does not satisfy the sequence criterion, and the current profile is selected if the link satisfies the sequence criterion. Data is communicated according to the selected profile.
US07796631B2
Method and a system for multicast service notification in cellular telephone system to enable the cellular telephone systems to provide both multicast and point-to-point services are disclosed. Several embodiments describe the signaling interaction between an access network and subscriber stations belonging to a multicast group to allow the access network to assign a channel conveying the multicast service between the access network and the subscriber stations.
US07796626B2
For supporting a decoding of encoded frames, which belong to a sequence of frames received via a packet switched network, it is detected whether a particular encoded frame has been received after a scheduled decoding time for the particular encoded frame and before a scheduled decoding time for a next encoded frame. In case the particular encoded frame is detected to have been received after its scheduled decoding time and before the scheduled decoding time for the next encoded frame, the particular encoded frame is re-scheduled to be decoded at the scheduled decoding time for the next encoded frame.
US07796623B2
There is provided a method of detecting and reporting poor voice quality for use by a gateway device. The method comprises facilitating a connection between a telephone and a remote telephone via a network, and detecting a poor voice quality indictor during the connection. The method further comprises capturing, for a pre-determined period of time, telephone voice data being exchanged between the gateway and the telephone, network voice data being exchanged between the gateway and the network, and gateway parameters. The method also comprises packetizing the telephone voice data, the network voice data and the gateway parameters into a plurality packets having a network address of a network storage, and transmitting the plurality packets destined for the network storage via the network. In one aspect, the poor voice quality indictor may be generated by a user of the telephone in response to a poor voice quality of the connection.
US07796617B1
Data transmission across a computer network is disclosed, comprising creating a plurality of tunnels across a computer network to connect a first computer to a second computer, the plurality of tunnels including a tunnel for each link in a link aggregation of a plurality of transmission protocols, connecting a first computer at a first site with a second computer at a second site, the connection made via the computer network, and transmitting packets end-to-end from the first computer to the second computer in a manner characterized that the computer network preserves a connection from the first computer to the second computer without terminating the connection at the inbound edge of the computer network, the packets conforming to protocols in the plurality of transmission protocols.
US07796615B2
A communication system for communication between a plurality of networks through a NAPT (Network Address Port Translation) device has communication terminals provided in a local network and a global network, a main device for managing communication information of the communication terminals, and a table provided in the main device for storing identification information, a local address, and a global address of each communication terminal in association with each other. When a communication terminal originates a call, the table is referred to, and when the destination of the call is a communication terminal outside the network, the global address of the NAPT device of the remote network is used as the mutual destination address, whereas when the destination of the call is a communication terminal present in the same network, the local address effective only in the local network is used.
US07796606B2
Prioritized communications are facilitated based on a receiving user's designation of a source (initiator), a delivery mode, and other parameters associated with the communication. The receiver may configure a list of preapproved initiators, delivery devices and modes, and any associated services such as a locator service, a mapping service, a directory service, etc. The communication is initiated by the initiator or automatically from an application associated with the initiator's device. A communication service or a hosted service retrieves receiver information and facilitates prioritized communication also providing optional services associated with the communication.
US07796602B2
A method of re-ordering packets receives packets having packet sequence numbers. The method then determines if a packet is an out of window packet and buffers out-of-window packets having a sequence number more than a first number. The method delivers a packet when the packet sequence number matches a first number. It delivers all buffered packets when a timeout occurs. A communication system having at least one network device that performs this method is also disclosed.
US07796599B2
Provided are a multiplexing and demultiplexing apparatus and method for delivering an MPEG-2 TS packet error signal through a CableCARD interface. In the multiplexing apparatus, a TS packet reception unit receives TS packets, and a pre-header generation unit generates pre-headers corresponding to the received TS packets. A pre-header insertion unit inserts the pre-headers in front of the received TS packets to generate cable MPEG packets (CMPs), and an output FIFO unit stores the CMPs. A FIFO control unit transfers the CMPs without collision with CMPS of different channels, and an output signal generation unit generates output signals from the CMPs of the different channels.
US07796591B2
In access multiplexers (1) for multiplexing Internet Protocol packets to be exchanged between network devices (2) and subscriber devices (3-5), the Internet Protocol packets are encapsulated at each side of the access multiplexers (1). By providing the access multiplexers (1) with Internet Protocol routers (6-8) for routing the Internet Protocol packets via direction dependent routes, the access multiplexers (1) have become transparent for routing protocols at Internet Protocol level which use multicast Internet Protocol destination addresses or broadcast Internet Protocol destination addresses. Between the network devices (2) and the access multiplexers (1) Ethernet packets are exchanged via virtual local area network connections (21-23) and between the subscriber devices (3-5) and the access multiplexers (1) Asynchronous Transfer Mode packets are exchanged via permanent virtual connections (31-33). The access multiplexers (1) are digital subscriber line access multiplexers and the network devices (2) comprise edge routers and the subscriber devices (3-5) comprise customer premises equipment.
US07796590B1
A method of managing network traffic. The method includes initializing a database in communication with a network device. The database includes a number of MAC address entries and a network flooding entry associated with each of the number of MAC address entries. Each of the number of MAC address entries is associated with a station known to the network. The method also includes receiving network traffic at the network device. The network traffic is associated with a MAC source address. The method further includes determining whether the MAC source address is included in the database, automatically learning a location associated with the MAC source address, and forwarding the network traffic over the network if the MAC source address is included in the database. Additionally, the method includes dropping or trapping the network traffic if the MAC source address is not included in the database. Dropping the network traffic is performed without interaction with a CPU.
US07796589B2
One aspect relates to a communication protocol for communicating between one or more entities, such as devices, hosts or any other system capable of communicating over a network. A protocol is provided that allows communication between entities without a priori knowledge of the communication protocol. In such a protocol, for example, information describing a data structure of the communication protocol is transferred between communicating entities. Further, an authentication protocol is provided for providing bidirectional authentication between communicating entities. In one specific example, the entities include a master device and a slave device coupled by a serial link. In another specific example, the communication protocol may be used for performing unbalanced transmission between communicating entities.
US07796588B2
An information processing device which can communicate with an image processing device on a network is characterized by comprising a search indication unit for issuing a search indication for searching the image processing device on the network, a first transmission unit for transmitting a request for changing a power saving state of the image processing device on the network to a normal state in response to the search indication issued by the search indication unit, a second transmission unit for transmitting a search request for searching the image processing device after the request was transmitted by the first transmission unit, and a designation unit for designating a transmission range of the request transmitted by the first transmission unit, and characterized in that the second transmission unit transmits the search request to the transmission range designated by the designation unit.
US07796581B1
A route manager queries network elements to identify egress routes and external nodes coupled to the network elements. The route manager queries a database to identify telephone numbers associated with the external nodes. For each telephone number associated with an external node, the route manager associates the telephone number with the egress routes coupled to the external node and with the network elements coupled to the egress routes. On a call, the route manager selects one of the network elements and the egress routes associated with the telephone number.
US07796578B2
Queries for IP addresses associated with a telephone number are conducted in accordance with query flags contained with an ENUM record. A query flag indicates the type of query to be initiated against the DNS databases. The query flag provides a means for interpreting the domain name portion of the URI contained in the ENUM record. Query flags provide an explicit indication as to the type of query to be performed against the DNS and provide an explicit indication as to how the domain name portion of a URI in an ENUM record should be interpreted. Query flags also provide guidance pertaining to subsequent actions to be performed. The use of query flags eliminates ambiguities associated with making assumptions about the domain name contained in an ENUM record. Thus, the use of query flags can reduce latency, reduce the load on transmission links, and reduce processing load on network elements.
US07796571B2
A slave apparatus control portion refers to a priority channel table stored in a use priority channel memory at the time of establishing communications with a host apparatus. The radio channel having the highest priority is allocated as the initial channel, and a connection request signal is transmitted from a communicating portion to the host apparatus in the frequency band of the initial channel. When the initial channel interferes with the radio channels used by other slave apparatuses or the frequency bands used by PCs, the radio channel overlapping those frequency bands is avoided, and the radio channel of the frequency band that is the second highest priority is selected.
US07796568B2
A method and apparatus for determining the content in bursts to be transmitted from a base station in a mobile network on a broadcast frequency in specific timeslots of a broadcast frequency frame structure. A current state of the logical channel allocated to the forthcoming burst is checked, and the content in the forthcoming burst is determined depending on the current channel state. A dummy burst with a base station specific training sequence is transmitted if there is no data to transmit, and if the dummy burst cannot be confused with a regular traffic burst according to the current channel state. The dummy burst contains no intelligible information to mobile terminals.
US07796567B2
A method for implementing soft time reuse includes: selecting for a cell or sector at least one time slot as a primary time slot and at least another one time slot as a secondary time slot; using the primary time slot at the border of the cell or sector; setting a first transmit power threshold for the primary time slot; setting a second transmit power threshold for the secondary time slot; the primary time slot selected for the cell or sector and a primary time slot selected for another cell or sector adjacent to the cell or sector are non-overlapped, and the first transmit power threshold is higher than the second transmit power threshold. A system is also provided by the embodiments of the present invention. The system and method reduce the interference between cells or sectors effectively and improve the resource utilization.
US07796558B2
The Inter-System handover is one of the key features in the third generation cellular systems. The compressed mode, with variable transmission gaps and power levels, is standardized to support the inter-frequency system handover. To minimize the use of system resources while maintaining the border-cell handover quality, a capacity-based compressed mode control method of the present invention is proposed. Considering the tradeoff between the capacity and the communication quality, the control method can adaptively manage the compressed mode operation based on the potential impacts on the capacity and the effectiveness of the compressed mode measurement. The present invention will improve the effectiveness and performance of the compressed mode operation.
US07796556B2
The present invention relates to a method and arrangements for including a detected cell, i.e. a cell not identified by the network, in an active set, i.e. the set comprising the base stations simultaneously connected to the same mobile terminal in soft handover. The method comprises the steps of:—receiving a measurement report comprising a detected set cell from a mobile terminal located in a first cell:—providing (301) a list (L1) for the first cell in the network with cells not defined as neighbouring cells to the first cell, wherein the cells in the list (L1) are grouped based on their scrambling codes;—identifying (302) the scrambling code of the detected set cell;—creating (303) a temporary relation between one of the cells in the list (L1), having an identical scrambling code as the detected set cell, and one cell in the AS;—adding (304) the one of the cells in the list (L1), having an identical scrambling code as the detected set cell, to the active set.
US07796545B2
Techniques to efficiently schedule and serve stations in a wireless network are described. An access point may aggregate stations with flows carrying traffic having similar characteristics, e.g., VoIP flows. The access point may schedule these stations together in an overall service period. The access point may serve each station in a respective service period within the overall service period. The access point may send a multi poll frame at the start of the overall service period to indicate the start time and/or service period for each station. Each station may decide to power down until its start time. The service periods for the stations may overlap one another. The service period for each station may cover an initial transmission as well as additional transmission and/or retransmission. If additional transmission and/or retransmission are not needed for a given station, then the next station may be served right away.
US07796544B2
A method and system for providing an analog front end for multiline transmission in communications systems are described. A transceiver circuit (1100) is configured to reduce line noise by providing a coupled transmitter (1106), receiver (1106), prebalance circuit (1110), and transformer (1220) further coupled to a communication line (1264) external to the transceiver circuit. A hybrid (HY) input stage (1204) coupled to the prebalance circuit provides high frequency compensation by including a first high pass circuit coupled to the HY stage inputs, wherein the high pass circuit includes two parallel passes, each with a capacitor (C1,C5) in series with a resistor (R9,R10). A receiver input stage (RX) (RX) (1206) further coupled to the prebalance circuit provides low frequency compensation by including a second high pass circuit coupled to the RX stage inputs, wherein the high pass circuit includes two parallel passes, one with a capacitor (C3) and one with a capacitor (C7) in series with a resistor (R13). Lastly, a summing junction (1208) coupled to the HY stage (1204) and RX stage (1206) subtracts the HY stage output from the RX stage output providing a filtered incoming analog signal for post processing.
US07796527B2
Computer hardware fault administration carried out in a parallel computer, where the parallel computer includes a plurality of compute nodes. The compute nodes are coupled for data communications by at least two independent data communications networks, where each data communications network includes data communications links connected to the compute nodes. Typical embodiments carry out hardware fault administration by identifying a location of a defective link in the first data communications network of the parallel computer and routing communications data around the defective link through the second data communications network of the parallel computer.
US07796524B1
A method of monitoring quality of service in communications over a packet-based network, involves transmitting test packets across the network and monitoring transmission characteristics such as packet loss and transmission delay for the test packets. A measure of network performance is then dynamically calculated from the transmission characteristics, and is displayed at the endpoint as a dynamic indication of the network performance.
US07796523B2
A network usage optimization method for minimizing the total network usage fee. The method includes the steps of (a) providing a network and a data processing apparatus, wherein the data processing apparatus communicates via a PVC of the network; (b) obtaining past network traffic data for traffic over the PVC; (c) predicting future network traffic data for traffic over the PVC for a future time period based on the past network traffic data; and (d) based on the predicted future network traffic data, specifying a CIR for the PVC for the future time period that will result in a minimum predicted total network usage fee for the future time period.
US07796522B2
A system and method for performing a traffic process in an integrated network of a VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) network and a PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network) are provided. The system includes: a softswitch which has a plurality of ASPs (Application Server Processes), transmits a data signal to other nodes through an ASP that is selected from among the ASPs, and transmits a heartbeat request message when a CPU (Central Processing Unit) utilization ratio and an SCTP (System Control Transmission Protocol) level congestion of the ASPs exceed respective reference points according to AS (Application Server)/ASP information; and a signaling gateway which updates the reference points of the CPU utilization ratio and the SCTP level congestion in response to the heartbeat request message and transmits a heartbeat acknowledgement message to the softswitch, and checks the CPU utilization ratio and the SCTP level congestion for a plurality of active ASPs within a predetermined CIC (Circuit Identification Code) or SSN (Sub-System Number) range according to the AS/ASP information, to determine the selected ASP when the signaling gateway receives data signal from outside and traffic is distributed.
US07796519B2
The aim of the present invention is to achieve a low delay and high bandwidth efficiency in an upstream bandwidth and to accurately reflect assured bandwidth in an actual transmitted bandwidth. To achieve this, in the present invention the maximum value and the transmission cycle of a requested bandwidth are set for each service class. The present invention allocates bandwidth to a service path terminating section based on excess allocated bandwidth and requested bandwidth of each service path terminating section. For each service path terminating section the present invention also selects one bandwidth out of a plurality of bandwidths requested by a service path terminating section in such a manner that the sum value of the allocated bandwidths of the plurality of service path terminating sections is within a predetermined range.
US07796514B2
Systems and methods are described that provide network traffic engineering that obviate network over-provisioning by providing QoS to each traffic class. Embodiments dimension switching router LTE schedulers to ensure that each traffic class receives an appropriate QoS in terms of delay, jitter, Packet Loss Ratio and throughput.
US07796513B2
A method and system for encoding a set of range labels for each parameter field in a packet classification key in such a way as to require preferably only a single entry per rule in a final processing stage of a packet classifier. Multiple rules are sorted accorded to their respective significance. A range, based on a parameter in the packet header, is previously determined. Multiple rules are evaluated according to an overlapping of rules according to different ranges. Upon a determination that two or more rules overlap, each overlapping rule is expanded into multiple unique segments that identify unique range intersections. Each cluster of overlapping ranges is then offset so that at least one bit in a range for the rule remains unchanged. The range segments are then converted from binary to Gray code, which results in the ability to determine a CAM entry to use for each range.
US07796502B2
The present invention discloses a method and device for implementing Och-SPRing in Wavelength Division Multiplexing system. The method includes: in the node of the optical network system, setting two switches in each working path and its backup path that pass through the node, each of which includes two input ports and one output port; when receiving signals, controlling the first switch to selectively accept the downlink service signals sent from the working path or the backup path; when sending signals, sending the uplink service signal sent from the local device respectively to one output port of uplink direction in the working path and the second switch; controlling the second switch to choose one signal among the local uplink service signal and the downlink service signal sent from the backup path to input into the uplink direction of the backup path. The method of the present invention can largely reduce construction cost of the system, save optical power budget, and improve OSNR.
US07796483B2
A method and apparatus for measuring the read stability of an optical disc are provided. Specifically, readout of the optical disc is repeated at each of at least two read laser beams powers being different from each other. A graph is drawn in which the inverses of the read powers are plotted on a horizontal axis and in which on a vertical axis is plotted the logarithm of a repeated readout number for each of the read powers. Here, the repeated readout number is the number of repetitions of the readout when a characteristic value for the number of repetitions of the readout varies and reaches a predetermined value. The read stability of the optical disc is evaluated by using the gradient of the graph.
US07796474B2
Disclosed is a clock for use in a master/slave clock system, including a system and method for semi-automatically performing diagnostic self-tests on the status and operability of a plurality of components of one or more secondary clocks. The invention addresses a multitude of diagnostic and problem detection issues, including “no fault found.”
US07796464B1
A synchronous memory with a shadow-cycle counter has a counter logic combiner with an address input, a registered processed-address input, an incremented-processed-address input, and a counter control input with an output that contains a processed address. A mask, counter, and mirror registers receives the processed address and has a clock input strobing around a middle of a pre-array clock cycle. An output of the mask, counter, and mirror registers forms a registered internal processed address. A clock phase shifter has a clock input and has an output coupled to the mask, counter, and mirror registers. A plane internal processed-address is coupled to the read/write control logic. An address output enable generated in the counter logic combiner is coupled to the data output enable logic.
US07796462B2
A system includes a memory controller and a plurality of memory devices connected in-series that communicate with the memory controller. Each of the memory devices has multiple independent serial ports for receiving and transmitting data. The memory controller a device address (DA) or ID number for designating a device that executes a command. Data contained in the command sent by the memory controller is captured by an individual link control circuit, in response to internally generated clock with appropriate latencies. The captured data is written into a corresponding memory bank. The data stored in one of a plurality of memory banks of one memory device is read in accordance with the addresses issued by the memory controller. The read data is propagated from the memory device through the series-connected memory devices to the memory controller.
US07796461B2
A semiconductor device comprises a plurality of memory chips; and a controller configured to supply the plurality of memory chips with signals for controlling the plurality of memory chips. The plurality of memory chips include a chip selection signal input section configured to make a drive-targeted memory chip selected or non-selected, based on an input signal. They also include an address signal input section configured to provide a signal to address the memory chip, based on an input signal. They further include a select address signal input section configured to make the plurality of memory chips selected or non-selected, based on an input signal, and configured divertible to the address signal input section.
US07796457B2
An exemplary motherboard includes a first slot arranged for mounting a first type of memory, a second slot arranged for mounting a second type of memory, a voltage regulator electronically connected to the first slot and the second slot, and a serial presence detect (SPD) unit connected to the voltage regulator. The first memory and the second memory alternatively mounted on the motherboard, the SPD detects which type of memory is mounted on the motherboard, and the voltage regulator outputs voltages suitable for the type of the memory mounted on the motherboard according to a detection result of the SPD.
US07796456B2
A semiconductor device is configured to prevent misprogramming of fuse circuits therein. The semiconductor device includes the following elements. A group of fuse element circuits 911 is configured to store a first data defining the circuit configuration. A fuse element circuit 913 is configured to store a second data representing inhibition of programming the group of fuse element circuits. A control logic circuit 140 is configured to program the first and the second data on the fuse element circuits. An AND gate circuit 914 is configured to inhibit the control logic circuit 140 from programming the group of fuse element circuits 911 on condition that the fuse element circuit 913 has been programmed.
US07796443B2
The invention is a new method for erasing a flash EEPROM memory device. The memory device has a first semiconductor region within a second semiconductor region, source and drain regions in the first semiconductor region, a well terminal inside the first semiconductor region, a charge storing layer electrically isolated from the first semiconductor region by a dielectric layer, and a control terminal electrically isolated from the charge storing layer by a inter layer dielectric. The method comprises the steps of: applying a first voltage bias of first polarity to the well terminal; allowing a first time period to elapse; applying a second voltage bias of second polarity opposite to the first polarity to the control terminal; resetting the first voltage bias to zero; allowing a second time period to elapse; and resetting the second voltage bias to zero.
US07796439B2
A semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell array, bit lines, a source line, a sense amplifier, a data buffer, a voltage generating circuit, and a control circuit, the control circuit being configured such that the control circuit writes batchwise the write data, in the plurality of memory cells of the bit lines, the control circuit, after the batchwise write, causes the plurality of first latch circuits to hold the write data once again, and the control circuit executes verify read from the memory cells, and executes, in a case where read data of the plurality of sense amplifier circuits by the verify read disagree with the write data that are held once again in the plurality of first latch circuits, additional write to write batchwise the held write data in the plurality of memory cells once again.
US07796434B2
Program voltages of a non-volatile memory device are controlled variably according to a program/erase operation count. The non-volatile memory device includes a program voltage supply unit for applying a program voltage to a memory cell, a program/erase count storage unit for storing a total program/erase operation count of the non-volatile memory device, a program start voltage storage unit for storing levels of program start voltages to be differently supplied according to the program/erase operation count, and a program voltage controller for controlling the program start voltage according to the program/erase operation count.
US07796426B2
A technique capable of improving speed of a set operation, which controls writing rate in a semiconductor device including a memory cell using a phase-change material. The technique uses means for setting a set-pulse voltage to be applied to the phase-change material to have two steps: the first-step voltage sets a temperature of the phase-change memory to a temperature at which the fastest nucleation is obtained; and the second pulse sets the temperature to a temperature at which the fastest crystal growth is obtained, thereby obtaining solid-phase growth of the phase-change material without melting. Moreover, the technique uses means for controlling the two-step voltage applied to the phase-change memory by a two-step voltage applied to a word line capable of reducing the drain current variation.
US07796420B2
A non-volatile random access memory device. The non-volatile random access memory device may include a magnetic bit, a write/sense, and a read pulse module. The read pulse module may be configured to send a read pulse signal to the magnetic bit. In addition, a write module may be in communication with the write/sense coil and may be configured to thereby change the magnetic bit between a first magnetic polarity state and a second magnetic polarity state. A read module may be in communication with the write/sense coil and may be configured to detect a first characteristic of the write/sense coil when a read pulse signal is delivered to the magnetic bit in the first magnetic polarity state and to detect a second characteristic of the write/sense coil when a read pulse signal is delivered to the magnetic bit in the second magnetic polarity state.
US07796412B2
A method and apparatus for converting Direct Current (DC) to Alternating Current (AC). The method comprises performing system analysis on at least one of a DC current, DC voltage, or an AC voltage; utilizing the system analysis for selecting at least one conversion parameter; and converting DC to AC utilizing the at least one conversion parameter.
US07796408B2
The present invention discloses a half-bridge LLC resonant converter with self-driven synchronous rectifiers, which utilizes a primary IC controller and a gate driver to drive the secondary synchronous rectifiers. In correspondence with the gate drive output voltages of the primary IC controller to the primary switch transistors, the gate driver for the secondary synchronous rectifiers comprises a differential transformer if the primary IC controller outputs two ground-referenced gate drive voltages, which cannot directly drive the primary switch transistors but can be imposed on the differential transformer; or comprises a DC shifter, a DC restorer and a differential transformer if the primary IC controller outputs two gate-source voltages, which can directly drive the primary switch transistors but cannot be imposed on the differential transformer. The drive voltages of the primary switch transistors are unipolar; however the drive voltage of the secondary synchronous rectifiers can be bipolar or unipolar. Under the valid operation mode, this converter can decrease the rectifier conduction losses to increase the power converter efficiency.
US07796407B2
A synchronous regulation circuit is provided to improve the efficiency for an offline power converter. A secondary-side switching circuit is coupled to the output of the power converter to generate a synchronous signal and a pulse signal in response to an oscillation signal and a feedback signal. An isolation device transfers the synchronous signal from the secondary side to the primary side of the power converter. A primary-side switching circuit further receives the synchronous signal to generate a switching signal for soft switching a transformer. The pulse signal is utilized to control a synchronous switch for rectifying and regulating the power converter. The synchronous switch includes a power switch and a control circuit. The control circuit receives the pulse signal for turning on/off the power switch. The power switch is connected in between the transformer and the output of the power converter. In addition, a flyback switch is operated as a synchronous rectifier to freewheel the inductor current of the power converter. The flyback switch is turned on in response to the off of the power switch. The on time of flyback switch is correlated to the on time of the power switch.
US07796406B2
A DC-DC converter apparatus comprising half or full bridge, two-stage resonant converter, which may include series resonant (inductor, capacitor) devices. An isolated transformer having primary and secondary winding supplies current to full-wave secondary stage-bridge through the use of primary winding resonant devices employing primary stage-bridge. The magnetizing of said devices employs zero-current, zero-voltage resonant-transition switching technology, which reduces switching losses at all switching frequencies to almost zero. The regulation of output voltage at all loads and input voltages achieved by the control of the switching frequency and the phase between signals for primary and secondary stages. The proper intermittent of the frequency and the phase allows achieving the value of efficiency up to 97%.
US07796404B2
A method for operating a power controller is provided. The method includes activating a rectifying FET upon a detection of an activation body diode conduction current occurring in the rectifying FET. The method generates an activation signal for a corresponding primary FET. The method further includes deactivating the corresponding rectifying FET upon a reception of a deactivation signal. The method further includes then deactivating the corresponding primary FET after delaying the deactivation signal, wherein the delay lessens a conduction time of a deactivation body current of the corresponding rectifying FET. The method further includes generating a deactivation signal and deactivating the corresponding rectifying FET upon a reception of the deactivation signal and deactivating the primary FET after delaying the deactivation signal. The delaying lessens a conduction time of a deactivation body current of the corresponding rectifying FET.
US07796396B2
A latch for retaining moving parts on an enclosure service module (ESM) is provided. This latch comprises a retaining groove in the latch that holds a self-clinching standoff fastener attached to the ESM. A return spring is contained within a molded cavity in the latch, and an alignment groove in the latch is placed at one end of the return spring. The alignment groove guides an alignment pin on the ESM into a secure position, and the return spring applies pressure against the pin while the pin is in the alignment groove.
US07796395B2
A semiconductor package module having a heat dissipation device includes one or more semiconductor packages with each semiconductor package having semiconductor chips and solder balls connected to the semiconductor chips. A printed circuit board is electrically connected to each of the semiconductor packages. The heat dissipation device dissipates heat generated within the semiconductor package module and includes a fastening member having a fastening body. The fastening member is placed in the space between the semiconductor chips and the printed circuit board, which occurs due to the presence of the solder balls. A coupling groove is defined in an upper surface of the fastening body, and a heat dissipation member covers the semiconductor packages. A through-hole is defined in the heat dissipation member at a position corresponding to the coupling groove, and a coupling member is disposed within the through-hole and is coupled to the coupling groove.
US07796384B2
In a system for housing electronics cards, methods and systems for cooling the electronics cards are presented. Each electronics card preferably contains heat-producing electronics and a heat sink, and is preferably placed within a card guide of the chassis and secured into position with a clamping device. At least one of the heat sink, the card guide, the clamping device, and a cold wall of the chassis are used to facilitate the conduction cooling of the heat-producing electronics. Furthermore, a clamping device may rigidly secure a card into position, thus reducing the impact of vibrations (including shock) on the card. Additionally, an air flow further cools the electronics cards, the card guides, and/or the cold wall.
US07796380B2
A positioning device for a computer read/write or storage device is provided. The positioning device allows the computer read/write or storage device (such as an optical disk drive, a hard disk drive, or a magnetic disk drive) to be readily installed in a computer chassis and rapidly detached therefrom for replacement without using screws.
US07796375B2
A basepan assembly for hook-on attachment onto a metering device is provided including a basepan support having at least two insert latches disposed at a first end and a side flange disposed at a second opposite end. A basepan body is provided being insertable onto said basepan support and including an inside wall configured to be attachable to a barrier of the metering device, as well as an outside wall, a bus stab chamber, and a hold-down insert configured to be attachable to the basepan body, the hold-down insert further having a side barrier. A top load stab having a first end affixable to the hold-down insert is provided and a bottom load stab insertable within said bus stab chamber is provided.
US07796373B2
A dielectric ceramic represented by a general formula: 100BamTiO3+aROn+bMOv+cXOw (where R represents a rare earth element, M represents a predetermined metal element, and n, v, and w represent independently a positive number determined in accordance with the valences of the elements R and M and a sintering aid component X, respectively), and the solid solution regions of the secondary components in the main phase grains are 10% or less (including 0%) on average in terms of a cross-sectional area ratio. The sintering aid component X contains at least Si, and m, a, b, and c satisfy 0.995≦m≦1.030, 0.1≦a≦2.0, 0.1≦b≦3.0, and 0.1≦c≦5.0. In a monolithic ceramic capacitor, dielectric layers are formed from the above-described dielectric ceramic. Consequently, a dielectric ceramic having a good AC voltage characteristic, maintaining a desired large dielectric constant and a good temperature characteristic, exhibiting a small dielectric loss, and being capable of ensuring the reliability and a monolithic ceramic capacitor including the dielectric ceramic are realized.
US07796364B2
A current-perpendicular-to-plane (CPP) magnetoresistance sensor and a method for forming a current-perpendicular-to-plane (CPP) magnetoresistance sensor. The method includes providing a ferromagnetic shield layer and disposing one or more seed layers on the ferromagnetic shield layer. The method also includes disposing a pinning layer on the one or more seed layers, wherein the pinning layer excludes PtMn, and disposing a pinned layer on the pinning layer. The shield layer, each of the one or more seed layers, the pinning layer, and the pinned layer are comprised of compounds having face-centered-cubic structures.
US07796360B2
A perpendicular magnetic recording head and method of manufacturing the same are provided. The perpendicular magnetic recording head records or reads information on or from a perpendicular magnetic recording medium. The perpendicular magnetic recoding head includes a coil, a main pole, and a return pole. The coil serves as a source for generating a magnetic field. The main pole and the return pole constitute a magnetic path of the magnetic field. The main pole includes an end facing the perpendicular magnetic recording medium. The end includes a leading part serving as a front side and a trailing part serving as a rear side with respect to a movement direction of the perpendicular magnetic recording medium. Both edges of the trailing part are chamfered, and the leading part has a plane inclined with respect to an air-bearing surface (ABS). The return pole has an end spaced from the main pole, and the other end connected with the main pole.
US07796356B1
A method and system for providing a disk drive is described. The disk drive includes media such as one or more disks, a slider and a head residing on the slider. The head has an air-bearing surface (ABS) and includes a touchdown sensor proximate to the ABS. The touchdown sensor is capable of detecting a temperature change of 0.1 degree Celsius or, in some embodiments, smaller. The disk drive also includes touchdown sensor control circuitry coupled with the touchdown sensor. The touchdown sensor control circuitry drives a current through the touchdown sensor and converts a signal from the touchdown sensor into an indication of whether touchdown has occurred.
US07796355B2
Methods of generating a write current in response to a write command include generating a reverse preshoot write current having a polarity opposite to a polarity for generating a magnetic transition corresponding to the write command, and then generating a write current to effect the magnetic transition corresponding to the write command. The write current may be used for writing data to a storage disk of a disk drive that includes a write head configured to apply a magnetic field to the storage disk responsive to write currents. A preamplifier circuit includes a write current generator configured to receive a write current command and configured to generate, responsive to the write current command, a reverse preshoot current having a first polarity that is opposite a second polarity for generating a magnetic transition corresponding to the write command.
US07796352B2
A device for rapidly changing objectives with threaded fastening on an optical instrument comprises an instrument adaptor which has, at one end, an external thread corresponding to the external thread of the objective, and, at the other end, a bayonet mount for fixably holding a bayonet base, and an objective adaptor which has, at one end, a bayonet base which can be connected to the bayonet mount of the instrument adaptor, and, at the other end, an internal thread corresponding to the internal thread of the optical instrument.
US07796344B2
A zoom lens system is provided that includes a compactly constructed focusing lens unit and that has a suppressed change in the image magnification at the time of movement of a focusing lens unit. The zoom lens system according to the present invention, in order from an object side to an image side, comprises: a first lens unit having positive optical power; a second lens unit having negative optical power; and at least two subsequent lens units, wherein the at least two subsequent lens units include a lens unit A and a lens unit B arranged on the image side relative to the lens unit A, at the time of zooming, all lens units move in a direction along the optical axis so that intervals between the lens units vary, at the time of focusing, the lens unit A moves in a direction along the optical axis, and the following condition is satisfied. 0.10<|fBAK/fF|/(fT/fW)<15.0 (here, fT/fW>4, ωW<20°
US07796338B2
A path of travel for radiation extends to one optical element, then to another optical element, and then away from the latter. One of the optical elements is respectively reflective and non-reflective to radiation above and below a first wavelength, and the other is respectively reflective and non-reflective to radiation below and above a second wavelength. According to a different aspect, a path of travel for radiation extends to one of first and second optical elements, then to the other optical element, and then away from the latter. The first optical element is reflective and non-reflective to radiation on respective sides of a first wavelength, and the second optical element is reflective and non-reflective to radiation on respective sides of a second wavelength. The first optical element can tilt in relation to the path of travel to change the first wavelength.
US07796323B2
A display particle includes: a colored particle including a polymer having a charging group and a colorant; and a reactive silicone polymer or a reactive long-chain alkyl polymer, the polymer being bound to or covering the surface of the colored particle.
US07796316B2
A shutter includes micro-optics having first and second concentrator arrays. A transducer laterally displaces one of the first and second concentrator arrays between transmissive and shuttered modes. In the transmissive mode, the arrays of concentrators are optically aligned to permit electromagnetic energy passing through the first array of concentrators to pass through the second array of concentrators. In the shuttered mode, the electromagnetic radiation is blocked from passing through the second array of concentrators. The concentrators may be compound parabolic concentrators, or lenslets positioned on opposing plates with pinholes printed therethrough. The shutter may increase f-number of radiation passing therethrough, and may be used in a limited f-cone radiation source with shuttering abilities, for example reducing f-cone of radiation output from the radiation source.
US07796309B2
A document with one or more analog markups is obtained. An original electronic document corresponding to the document is also identified. The one or more analog markups are converted to one or more digital annotations, and the one or more digital annotations are stored in one or more parts of a package of the original electronic document.
US07796303B2
Sets of multiple pixels are grouped into pixel groups, and on the basis of tone value distribution in each pixel group, it is decided whether to divide the pixel group. For pixel groups that are not divided, a representative tone value is determined for the pixel group, and for pixel groups that are divided, a representative tone value is determined for each region created by the division. Next, from multilevel halftoning result values derived by multilevel halftoning of the representative tone values, the dot on-off state is determined for each pixel in the pixel groups, and the image is output. At this time, for divided pixel groups, the dot on-off state is determined for each pixel in the regions, based on the multilevel halftoning result value for each region. With multilevel halftoning result values, data creation and transfer can be performed rapidly. Additionally, since the dot on-off state can be determined for each pixel in a pixel group even in instances where the pixel group has a tone value distribution, images of high picture quality can be output rapidly by unit of a simple process.
US07796296B2
A method is provided of personalizing color reproduction of an output device by determining a user-specific color mapping. A user is enabled to individually select different color reproductions of a plurality of different test images according to the user's preferences, wherein the different color reproductions are associated with different color mappings. The test images are reproduced by the output device or a display device simulating the output device. The user-specific color mapping is determined by combining the color mappings of the selected color reproductions.
US07796288B2
An operating screen including a printing setup screen containing the setup items of printing conditions that a user can select is provided to the user. Further, a result of searching for printers that match the values of the setup items is arranged on the printer selection screen within the operating screen, and a “Print” button is arranged on the operating screen for the user to operate for instructing a printer displayed as the result of the search.
US07796286B2
An image forming apparatus includes a judging unit that judges whether a replacement part attached to the image forming apparatus needs replacement based on consumption information indicative of how much the replacement part has been consumed. The replacement part includes a storage unit that stores therein information including identification information unique to the replacement part. When the judging unit judges that the replacement part needs replacement, a reading unit reads the identification information from the replacement part, and an encrypting unit encrypts a predetermined piece of information in the replacement part based on the identification information read by the reading unit.
US07796279B2
This invention solves problems such as density shortage, toner scattering, and toner fog when images whose density is biased are successively printed. In order to achieve this purpose, an image processing equipment comprising an input unit which inputs a print job, an image processing unit which generates print data corresponding to the input print job and supplies the print data to an image forming unit, a detector which detects bias of the amount of toner application distribution in the print data, and a control unit which controls said image processing unit so as to rotate an output direction of the print data on the basis of a detection result of said detector.
US07796273B2
A phase-shifting interferometry (PSI) method and corresponding system including: (i) recording an interferogram for each phase in a sequence of phases between test light reflected from a test surface and reference light reflected from a reference surface, the test and reference light being derived from a common source, each interferogram corresponding to an intensity pattern produced by interfering the reflected test light with the reflected reference light, the interferograms defining an interferometry signal for each of different transverse locations of a cavity defined by the test and reference surfaces, each interferometry signal including a series of intensity values corresponding to the sequence of phases, with the difference between each pair of phases in the sequence defining a corresponding phase shift increment; (ii) calculating an initial phase map for the cavity based on at least some of the recorded interferograms; (iii) calculating an estimate for each of at least some of the phase shift increments based on the initial phase map and at least some of the recorded interferograms; and (iv) calculating an improved phase map based on the calculated estimates for the phase shift increments and at least some of the recorded interferograms.
US07796269B2
According to one embodiment, a micro-electrical mechanical system apparatus includes (i) a comb drive actuator having at least one irregularly shaped finger and (ii) a movable Fabry-Perot filter cavity mirror coupled to the comb drive actuator. According to some embodiments, a relationship between a voltage applied to the comb drive actuator and an amount of displacement associated with the movable mirror is substantially linear.
US07796268B2
Optical communications can be performed using spectral interferometry. An incident transmission pulse or beam may be mixed with a locally generated beam or pulse to create an interference pattern that may be analyzed to extract the transmitted data. The incident transmission pulse or beam may also be split and mixed with itself to create an interference pattern.
US07796265B2
An optical absorption gas analyzer for determining the concentration of a target gas in a sample is disclosed. The analyzer comprises a chamber for containing the sample in use; a radiation source assembly arranged to emit radiation into the chamber; a first radiation detector assembly arranged to detect radiation transmitted along a first optical path through the chamber and a second radiation detector assembly arranged to detect radiation transmitted along a second optical path through the chamber, wherein the length of the second optical path which the sample can intercept is shorter than that of the first optical path. The analyzer further comprises a processor adapted to generate a sensing signal SS based on the detected radiation transmitted along the first optical path and a reference signal SR based on the detected radiation transmitted along the second optical path. The processor determines the concentration of the target gas in the sample based on a comparison of the sensing signal with the reference signal.
US07796264B2
There is provided a method for detecting a target material, preferably a solid or liquid target material. The method may comprise the steps of targeting a material for analysis, heating the material with a heating source from a remote distance to effectively increase a temperature of the material and to effectively increase a vapor pressure of the material in an environment adjacent to the material, measuring with a sensor the material vapor in the adjacent environment from the remote distance, and detecting the identity of the material using data generated during the measuring step. There is also provided a system for detecting a target material having a low vapor pressure comprising a first energy generating source, a sensor for measuring properties of gaseous materials from a standoff distance, the sensor producing data, and a computer for determining the target material based on the data produced by the sensor.
US07796259B2
Disclosed embodiments pertain to optical assemblies which impart a spatially dependent rotation to linearly polarized light. A pair of optical assemblies may be used to apply a spatially dependent rotation to linearly polarized light in the region between the optical assemblies, and produce a spatially independent rotation after traversing the second optical assembly. A pair of optical assemblies may be used in combination with a wave plate to allow a determination of the Stokes parameters of an elliptically polarized beam of light.
US07796255B2
The invention relates to particle sensors that are capable of passively cooling high-powered optical sources within the sensor, thereby extending the optical source lifetime without requiring additional power. The sensor detects particles within a sample fluid by optical interaction of the optical source with flowing sample fluid in the sample chamber. Sample fluid that exits the sample chamber is directed into thermal contact with the optical source, thereby cooling the optical source. Sample fluid that has come into thermal contact with the optical source is continuously removed from the sensor to ensure the optical source is adequately cooled. A variety of elements are used to facilitate thermal contact between the optical source and sample fluid including plenums, heat sinks, and airflow cavities. Provided are related methods for cooling a one or more heat-producing device within a particle sensor.
US07796251B2
Systems and methods for fast and sensitive standoff surface-hazard detection with high data throughput, high spatial resolution and high degree of pointing flexibility. The system comprises a first hand-held unit that directs an excitation beam onto a surface that is located a distance away from the first unit and an optical subsystem that captures scattered radiation from the surface as a result of the beam of light. The first unit is connected via a link that includes a bundle of optical fibers, to a second unit, called the processing unit. The processing unit comprises a fiber-coupled spectrograph to convert scattered radiation to spectral data, and a processor that analyzes the collected spectral data to detect and/or identify a hazardous substance. The second unit may be contained within a body-wearable housing or apparatus so that the first unit and second unit together form a man-portable detection assembly. In one embodiment, the system can continuously and without interruptions scan a surface from a 1-meter standoff while generating Raman spectral-frames at rates of 25 Hz.
US07796248B2
A defect inspection method for a transparent plate material for detecting a bubble, a scratch, a foreign matter, and another defect existing on or in the transparent plate material. The method includes capturing a first image of a main surface of the transparent plate material and capturing a second image of a rear surface of the transparent plate material. A defect candidate is searched for in each of the first and second images. Whether a real image or a virtual image was formed is determined, based on a contrast of an image of a defect candidate obtained by the search. Further, based on an appearance pattern of the real image or the virtual image, a determination is made as to whether the defect candidate is located on the main surface, inside, or on the rear surface of the transparent plate material.
US07796240B2
The present invention provides an evaluation method for evaluating whether a light-emitting element material to be evaluated is suitable for a host material or a guest material. By carrying out a first step of measuring absorption intensity of a light-emitting element material and a second step of irradiating the light-emitting element material with light for a predetermined period of time, repeatedly; thereby a change in absorption intensity with time is evaluated so that whether the light-emitting material is suitable for a host material or a guest material can be distinguished. The light emitted to the light-emitting element material preferably has a wavelength component which is absorbed by a skeleton which contributes to excitation of the light-emitting element material.
US07796238B2
Exposure equipment having a wafer pre-alignment apparatus and a wafer pre-alignment method using the same reduce wafer pre-alignment errors. The exposure equipment comprises a plurality of exposure units in which lots of wafers are loaded, respectively, and a central control unit. The exposure units are constituted by an alignment apparatus that can detect the relative angular orientation of each wafer transferred to the apparatus and thus, sense any misalignment of the wafers. The central control unit calculates inherent error values for the exposure units based on data transmitted to the central control unit from the alignment apparatus. The central control unit also controls the equipment based on the inherent error values of the exposure units to compensate for the misalignment of the wafers in the exposure units.
US07796225B2
Provided is an array substrate for an IPS-mode LCD device and method of fabricating the same that prevents a problem referred to as wavy noise. The IPS-mode LCD device and method have a shorter processing time and low error rate without an increase in fabrication and production costs.
US07796224B2
A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate, and liquid crystal. The first substrate includes pixel electrodes, at least one common electrode, and a circuit wiring. The second substrate is opposed to the first substrate and includes a translucent conductive film. The liquid crystal is held between the first substrate and the second substrate. The circuit wiring is arranged outside a pixel area in which a plurality of pixels, which are formed of the pixel electrodes and the at least one common electrode, are arranged. The translucent conductive film is arranged on an opposite side of the second substrate to a side where the liquid crystal is present, and the translucent conductive film is opposed to the pixel electrodes and the at least one common electrode. The translucent conductive film is maintained at a predetermined electric potential. The translucent conductive film has an outer periphery that is located closer to a center of the second substrate than an outer periphery of the second substrate.
US07796213B2
In a liquid crystal display device using a light emitting diode as a light source, even when a plurality of light emitting elements are provided, an inclined surface is formed on a light guide plate as a reflection surface, and a light is converged in the liquid-crystal-panel direction using the reflection surface. In a liquid crystal display device which includes a backlight for radiating a light toward a liquid crystal panel, LEDs are formed on the light guide plate which is mounted on the backlight as light emitting elements. The plurality of LEDs are arranged along a side surface of the light guide plate, and a first reflection surface and a second reflection surface are formed on a bottom surface of the light guide plate. The second reflection surface is arranged closer to the LEDs than the first reflection surface and an angle of the second reflection surface is set larger than an angle of the first reflection surface.
US07796212B2
A liquid crystal display with an improved viewing angle and brightness is provided. The liquid crystal display includes a light source unit and a polarized light guide plate having an incident surface onto which unpolarized light from the light source unit is incident. The polarized light guide plate polarizes, collimates, and out-couples the incident light. The liquid crystal display also includes a liquid crystal panel which modulates the light out-coupled and illuminated from the polarized light guide plate to form images, and a diffusion layer which diffuses the light modulated in the liquid crystal panel.
US07796210B2
A flat panel display includes a backlight module, a liquid crystal display panel, and a complex diffuser plate. The liquid crystal display panel is disposed on the backlight module, and the complex diffuser plate including a first and a second diffusion layers is disposed between the backlight module and the liquid crystal display panel. Furthermore, the first diffusion layer is adjacent to the liquid crystal display panel and the second diffusion layer is adjacent to the first diffusion layer. The first and the second diffusion layers have different refractive indexes, transmittances and haze values, so that optical performance of the flat panel display is improved.
US07796209B2
A backlight (2; illumination device) includes multiple light guide units (11) each including: a light source (5); and a light guide plate (7) for diffusing, for surface emission, light from the light source (5). Each light guide plate (7, 7 . . . ) includes: a light-emitting section (7b) having a light-emitting surface (7a); and a light guide section (7c) for guiding, to the light-emitting section, light from the light source (5), a light-emitting section (7b) of one of any adjacent two of the light guide plates (7) being provided above a light guide section (7c) of the other light guide plate (7). The light-emitting surface (7a) includes: a parallel surface (7d) parallel to an irradiation object; and a slant surface (7e) slanted relative to the irradiation object, the slant surface being provided between the parallel surface (7d) and the light guide section (7c); and the slant surface (7e) has gradients varying continuously relative to the parallel surface (7d) in such a manner as to form a curved surface continuously connecting with the parallel surface. This allows for production of an illumination device capable of achieving better uniformity in light emitted from its light sources.
US07796204B2
An array substrate device includes a gate line formed on a substrate extending along a first direction having a gate electrode, a data line formed on the substrate extending along a second direction having a data pad disposed apart from a first end of the data line, the data and gate lines defining a pixel region, a gate pad formed on the substrate disposed apart from a first end of the gate line, a thin film transistor formed at a crossing region of the gate and data lines and including the gate electrode, a semiconductor layer, a source electrode, and a drain electrode, a black matrix overlapping the thin film transistor, the gate line, and the data line except for a first portion of the drain electrode, a first pixel electrode at the pixel region contacting the first portion of the drain electrode and the substrate, a color filter on the first pixel electrode at the pixel region, and a second pixel electrode on the color filter contacting the first pixel electrode.
US07796201B2
A pixel device capable of composing a panel is provided herein. The pixel device includes a first switch, a first capacitor, and a second capacitor. The first switch delivers a pixel signal to a pixel electrode according to a control signal. The first capacitor has a first part of a first metal layer, a second metal layer, and a first dielectric coupled between the first part of the first metal layer and the second metal layer. The second capacitor has a first poly-silicon layer, an electrode layer, and a second dielectric coupled between the first poly-silicon layer and the electrode layer. The first and the second capacitors are parallel connected without increasing the area of the pixel and serve as a storage capacitor. Therefore, the pixel device can obtain more overall storage capacitance.
US07796197B2
An integrated circuit includes a dual-conversion tuner, firstly upconverting so as to place a signal outside the reception band, then downconverting with zero intermediate frequency. A bulk acoustic wave type filter is calibrated in such a way as to accurately determine its central frequency. This filter is positioned between the two frequency transposition stages of the tuner. After baseband filtering, the signals are digitized then processed in a digital block BNM which includes a channel decoding module.
US07796194B2
A video format identification system includes a master clock circuit which provides timing and counting signals, a synchronization activity detector operatively coupled to the master clock circuit, and a synchronization width qualifier configured to filter out noise or reference burst signals from showing up as sync signals. The system also includes a synchronization detector which regulates the rate of the incoming sync signal, a color burst sampler providing a window for sampling a reference color burst after the sync signal has occurred, and a color burst detector which looks for at least three transitions from a burst signal before it qualifies the as an appropriate reference color burst. A format sample timer generates sample clock signals. A format sample counter produces “take format” signals which are utilized by a set of format counter. The system further includes a video format identifier which enables a particular video format to be directed to a respective video connector.
US07796181B2
A color temperature conversion element includes a diffractive optical element that includes a polymer and a liquid crystal and diffracts light with a specific wavelength in incident light.
US07796180B2
An image sensor formed with shifts among the optical parts of the sensor and the photosensitive parts of the sensor. Exemplary methods of calculating the desired shift are described and include a circular, symmetric design for the shift. The exemplary methods can also be used to calculate a correction coefficient for performing shading correction on signals that are output from the array and digitized.
US07796174B1
The present invention relates to imaging systems that generally include at least a first substrate, on which a charge coupled device imaging sensor array is formed, and a second substrate on which readout circuitry is formed. Information related to the amount of light incident on pixels included in the imaging sensor array is passed to the readout circuitry as a voltage signal over an interconnection between the imaging sensor array and the readout circuitry. Accordingly, the readout circuitry may sample the output of the imaging sensor array multiple times. The system allows different processes to be used for forming the imaging sensor array and the readout circuitry, while also supporting multiple samples of information provided by the imaging sensor array.
US07796166B2
A hand-held digital camera device includes a programmable processing circuitry incorporating a four-way parallel VLIW vector processor; an image sensor interface connected to the programmable processing circuitry and configured to receive signals from an image sensor and pass data representing the signals to the programmable processing circuitry; and a printhead interface connected to the programmable processing circuitry and configured to receive data from the programmable processing circuitry and generate control signals to be received by a printhead of a printing mechanism. The programmable processing circuitry, the image sensor interface and the printhead interface all form part of CMOS integrated circuitry provided on a common wafer. An instruction set of the VLIW vector processor is tuned for image manipulation processing.
US07796159B2
An image correction method can perform adaptive correction processing to a taken image by a simple construction in a short time, and includes the steps of: computing window region local difference values for a plurality of neighboring pixels, each of the window region local difference values being a difference value between image data of a notice pixel (33a) in a difference value determination region (32) formed of a whole or a part of a screen area of an input image (31) and image data of a neighboring pixel in a window region (33) set around the notice pixel (33a), thereby determining a maximum local difference value which is a maximum value of the window region local difference values in each window region; determining a threshold value reflecting a characteristic of the input image on the basis of the maximum local difference value; producing adaptive filter coefficients for respective pixels of the input image by using the threshold value; and performing filter processing of the input image by using the adaptive filter coefficients.
US07796156B2
An apparatus for testing an organic electroluminescent display panel having a plurality of data and scan lines comprises a detecting control circuit, a gate de-multiplexer and a source de-multiplexer. The detecting control circuit generates a gate test signal and a source test signal respectively to the gate de-multiplexer and the source de-multiplexer according to the position coordinate of a testing pixel in the organic electroluminescent display panel. The gate de-multiplexer and the source de-multiplexer send a gate testing voltage and a source testing voltage to one of the scan lines and one of the data lines respectively according to the gate and source test signals. In addition, the detecting control circuit further records an output voltage of the testing pixel.
US07796155B1
A real-time, group interactive, augmented-reality system for monitoring an area, suitable for enhancing the enjoyment of entertainment events, is presented. The system comprises a sensor data acquisition system for receiving sensor data, in real-time, from a plurality of data acquisition sensors disposed about an area to be monitored, and a plurality of display centers communicatively coupled with the data acquisition system for receiving sensor data therefrom. A display center includes an user input, a data acquisition sensor selector, an interaction interface for communicating in real-time with users of other display centers, an interface for connecting a display device, and a local display device augmenting system, which are configured to allow a user to interactively augment in real-time his/her local display of events with user-inputted doodles, user requested information and statistics, and user selected viewing angles. The system allows users to interactively share the locally augmented-reality display with users of other display centers.
US07796146B2
An image forming apparatus, includes: an exposure head that includes a plurality of imaging optical systems which are arranged in a first direction and a plurality of light emitting elements which emit lights to be imaged by the imaging optical systems; a latent image carrier that moves in a second direction orthogonal to or substantially orthogonal to the first direction and carries a latent image formed by the exposure head; a developer that develops the latent image; and a detector that detects an image developed by the developer, wherein the image detected by the detector has a width in the first direction wider than that of an image formed by one imaging optical system.
US07796141B2
A method of proportionally reducing the area of the operating system's active “desktop” display with all functions operational, then deploying and displaying a secondary graphical user interface (GUI) known as a “Persistent Portal” (PP) into the resulting blanked area.
US07796138B2
Response fidelity problems appear for some specific video levels at PDP borders. The reason is that some cells at the border of the PDP panel are not completely closed and pollute when switched ON neighbouring cells being OFF. Therefore, it is suggested to encode the video levels in the border area in a specific way. Especially, for critical sub-fields within the code it is forbidden to insert a binary 0 between two binary 1. Thus, the neighbourhood of critical sub-fields being ON and OFF is avoided. Preferably, the specific border coding is performed under the control of an average power management and codewords being not used are recreated by dithering.
US07796137B1
Disclosed are an apparatus, a system, a method, a graphics processing unit (“GPU”), a computer device, and a computer medium to implement a pool of independent enhanced tags to, among other things, decouple a dependency between tags and cachelines. In one embodiment, an enhanced tag-based cache structure includes a tag repository configured to maintain a pool of enhanced tags. Each enhanced tag can have a match portion configured to form an association between the enhanced tag and an incoming address. Also, an enhanced tag can have a data locator portion configured to locate a cacheline in the cache in response to the formation of the association. The data locator portion enables the enhanced tag to locate multiple cachelines. Advantageously, the enhanced tag-based cache structure can be formed to adjust the degree of reusability of the enhanced tags independent from the degree of latency tolerance for the cacheline repository.
US07796136B2
An image signal processing apparatus which is capable of preventing the “simultaneous display of an original image and the immediately preceding image” as well as dropping of frames. A signal processor subjects an image pickup signal corresponding to a subject outputted from an image pickup device to signal processing. A VRAM (Video Random Access Memory) section is composed of at least three storage areas that store image signals outputted from the signal processing circuit. A VRAM management information section stores management information indicative of storage states of the respective storage areas of the VRAM section. A compression circuit subjects an image signal read from the VRAM section to compression processing. An image display processing circuit subjects an image signal read from the VRAM section to image display processing. An image display section displays images based on the image signal outputted from the image display processing circuit. A memory controller controls read/write operations for image signals in the respective storage areas of the VRAM section based on the management information stored in the VRAM management information section.
US07796133B1
The present invention is a unified shader unit used in texture processing in graphics processing device. Unlike the conventional method of using one shader for texture coordinate shading and another for color shading, the present shader performs both operations. The unified shader uses the same precision for both texture coordinate and color shading, thus simplifying the complexity of programming for two separate conventional shaders with different levels of precision. Furthermore, the present invention uses enhanced scheduling logic to perform indirect texture and bump mapping in a single first-in, first-out (FIFO) memory structure and avoids the problems associated with large FIFOs with buffer registers found in conventional shaders. In one embodiment, a plurality of ALU-memory pairs are synchronized to form a plurality of pipelines to execution shading instructions. In another embodiment, a plurality of unified shaders are synchronized and connected together to processing shading operations concurrently.
US07796130B2
A PC-based computing system capable of displaying images of 3-D objects during an interactive process between said computing system and a user thereof. The PC-based computing system includes a graphics processing subsystem having a plurality of GPUs arranged in a parallel architecture and operating according to an object division mode of parallel operation so that each GPU supports a graphics pipeline for processing data in a parallel manner according to the object division mode. A hardware hub, interfaces with a CPU interface module and the GPUs, and has a hub router for (i) distributing the stream of geometrical data and graphic commands among the GPUs, and (ii) transferring pixel data output from one or more of GPUs during the composition of frames of pixel data corresponding to final images for display on the display surface. A CPU interface module provides an interface between one or more software hub drivers and the hardware hub.
US07796128B2
The present invention provides methods and apparatus for dynamically varying a physics workload by scaling the classification of objects within a three-dimensional scene. According to embodiments of the invention, a physics engine may classify a plurality of objects within a three-dimensional scene as either static objects or as dynamic objects. The physics engine may then perform physics operations with the objects, and may monitor the workload experienced by processing elements within a system which includes the physics engine. Based on the workload experienced by the processing elements within the system, the physics engine may vary the number of objects which are classified as dynamic and vary the number of objects which are classified as static. By varying the classification of the objects, the physics engine may vary the workload experienced by the physics engine.
US07796121B2
An improved handheld electronic device having a reduced keyboard provides facilitated language entry by making available to a user certain words that a user may reasonably be expected to enter. Incoming data, such as the text of a message, can be scanned for proper nouns since such proper nouns might not already be stored in memory and might be expected to be entered by the user when forwarding or responding to the message. A proper noun can be identified on the basis that it begins with an upper case letter. The proper nouns can be stored in memory that may be a temporary dictionary.
US07796116B2
An item of electronic equipment is described that includes a machine and executable program code. The executable program code is stored on a non volatile memory. The executable program code is to be executed by the machine. The executable program code is to perform a method. The method is in relation to a location on a display, or proximate to the display, that is pointed to by a handheld device. The method includes executing at least one of the following methods: (i) displaying a cursor on said display at said location, said location on said display; (ii) highlighting a menu option on said display at said location, said location on said display; (iii) triggering action taken by said electronic equipment in response to said handheld device's sending of a signal to indicate said action is desired.
US07796110B2
In a D/I conversion section of the semiconductor device for driving a light emission display device, a precharge circuit is provided at the rear of each 1-output D/I conversion section. A precharge signal PC is input into the precharge circuit. The D/I conversion section has two output blocks internally thereof, and a role for storing and outputting current is changed every frame to enable securing a period for driving a pixel longer. Further, at the time of driving, in the precharge circuit, current driving is carried out after a voltage corresponding to output current has been applied to the pixel, and therefore, the pixel can be driven at high speed. Thereby, output current of high accuracy can be supplied to digital image data to be input, and even where an output current value is low, the current load device can be driven at high speed.
US07796109B2
A voltage level converter for driving resistive and capacitive loads of a display device includes a charge circuit having a capacitance, a transistor NMOS1, a capacitance, and a transistor; a discharge circuit having transistors; and a reset signal generating circuit provided in a preceding stage of the discharge circuit. A signal having an inverted phase to an input pulse is applied to the reset signal generating circuit. An output of the reset signal generating circuit is supplied to gate terminals of the transistors, thus realizing reliable turning ON or OFF the discharge circuit.
US07796104B2
A liquid crystal display includes an array of pixels. Each pixel is divided into a first sub-pixel and a second sub-pixel, and different data voltages are separately applied to (or evolved at) the two sub-pixels, thereby enhancing the lateral side visibility. Each sub-pixel includes a sub-pixel electrode (connected to the drain electrode of a sub-pixel's switching element) overlapped with the sub-pixel's storage electrode. A first predetermined voltage is applied to the first sub-pixel and second predetermined voltage is applied the second sub-pixel, and thus the first sub-pixel electrode may receive a voltage lower than the voltage of the second sub-pixel electrode. The first sub-pixel electrode may be larger in area than the second sub-pixel electrode. The overlapping area between the first drain electrode and the storage electrode of a first sub-pixel may be larger than the overlapping area between the drain electrode and the storage electrode of a second sub-pixel. Thus the kickback voltage of the first sub-pixel may be substantially the same as the kickback voltage of the second sub-pixel.
US07796099B2
A light emitting device which is able to suppress power consumption while a balance of white light is maintained is provided. According to the present invention, either the potential level of the Hi video signal or Lo video signal which is given to a gate electrode of a transistor, and the potential level of the power source lines are changed by the respective corresponding colors. Concretely, the potential level at the side of Lo and the potential level of the power source line are made to be changed by the respective corresponding colors when a transistor which controls current supplied to a light emitting element is a p-channel type. Conversely, the potential level at the side of the Hi and potential level of the power source line are made to be changed by the respective corresponding colors when a transistor which controls current supplied to a light emitting element is an n-channel type.
US07796089B2
An antenna system (100, 500) for a portable communication device (112) is provided. The antenna system is comprised of a retaining structure (204), an antenna flap (206), and a first pivot coupling (212). The retaining structure provides a means for securing the retaining structure to the portable communication device. The antenna flap includes an antenna structure (302). The antenna structure is comprised of an antenna radiating element (600) and/or an antenna impedance matching network (652). The first pivot coupling pivotally connects the antenna flap to the retaining structure. The first pivot coupling is configured to allow the antenna flap to pivot freely on the first pivot coupling responsive to a force of gravity acting on the antenna flap. The retaining structure is configured as a holster in which the portable communication device can be disposed.
US07796081B2
Vehicular arrangement for obtaining information about objects exterior to the vehicle includes at least one combined imaging and distance measuring system arranged along an edge or a side of the vehicle, each combined system including an infrared illuminator for directing infrared illumination outward from the vehicle, an imager sensitive to infrared illumination and visible light, the imager being arranged to form images of an environment around the vehicle and thereby enable identification of objects in the images, a radar or laser radar system arranged to simultaneously determine a distance between the vehicle and objects identified in images obtained by the imager with the identification of the objects in the images. A reactive system is arranged on the vehicle to consider both the identification of the objects and their distance from the vehicle and react accordingly.
US07796079B2
The analog-to-digital converter provided herein includes a capacitor bank comprising a plurality of binary-weighted capacitors, an operational amplifier having an inverting input node, a noninverting input node coupled to analog ground, and an output node, a reset switch, and an input switch. The reset switch is located between the capacitor bank and the operational amplifier, and it selectively couples the capacitor bank to the inverting input node. The input switch has its common terminal coupled to the capacitor bank, and the input switch selectively couples the capacitor bank to either an analog input voltage, a floating terminal, or analog ground. The capacitor bank includes N binary-weighted capacitors and one balancing capacitor that has a unit capacitance. During operation, the analog-to-digital converter generates an N-bit digital output and one polarity bit from the analog input voltage.
US07796071B2
This disclosure relates to techniques and architecture for summing, sampling, and converting signals associated with a capacitive feedforward filter using a quantizer.
US07796066B2
System and method for common mode translation in continuous-time sigma-delta analog-to-digital converters. An embodiment includes a loop filter having an RC network coupled to a differential signal input, a Gm-C/Quantizer/DAC circuit (GQD) coupled to the loop filter, a common-mode level adjust circuit coupled to signal inputs of the GQD, and a tuning circuit coupled to the GQD and the common-mode level adjust circuit. The GQD evaluates an input signal provided by the RC network, computes a difference between a filtered input signal and the feedback quantization signal to generate an error signal, measures the error signal, and compensates for the error signal with sigma-delta noise-shaping. The common-mode level adjust circuit alters a common-mode level of a differential input signal to be substantially equal to a desired common-mode level and the tuning circuit provides a compensation voltage to the common-mode level adjust circuit based on a difference between the common-mode levels.
US07796063B2
A transmission circuit includes a serial clock generator, a serializer and a transmission clock generator. The serial clock generator generates a serial clock. The serializer serializes N-bit parallel data to N-bit serial data in synchronization with the serial clock. The transmission clock generator receives the serial clock to generate a transmission clock that has a same delay as the N-bit serial data, and the data transmission circuit simultaneously transmits the N-bit serial data and the serial clock.
US07796056B2
Disclosed is a method and system for recommending locations keyed to a map database system and providing navigation instructions to the recommended locations to a driver of a vehicle by gathering actual statistics about the preferences of the user and/or by comparing the user to population data to create recommendations in accord with the preferences of the population.
US07796051B2
A measuring device (1) enables a handheld RFID receiver (20) to identify the measuring device (1), initiating measurements and receive measurement data relating to the condition of a rotating member of a machine. The measuring device (1) is intended to be mounted on the outside of a machine with at least one rotating member and the measuring device (1) is intended to measure and communicate measurement data relating to the condition of the rotating member. The device is energized and communicates by a magnetic field (21) introduced by the handheld receiver (20). The device (1) is suitable to be used for measurements at inspection rounds at industrial plants.
US07796045B2
A system and method for managing workflow is provided. The system includes one or more computer devices which execute workflow software to assign tasks to medical staff. The workflow software may be configured to assign tasks to persons on the medical staff based on a set of criteria including the person's current location or zone, the locations or zones in which other uncompleted tasks are located, and whether the person has a particular pieced of medical equipment. The system may include portable wireless communication devices and an interactive voice recognitions (IVR) subsystem to permit persons on the staff to communicate information by voice to the computer devices via the portable wireless communication devices and to receive audio messages from the computer devices via the wireless communication devices. The workflow software may be configured to display a staff screen in which the displayed data is filtered by medical staff role and sorted by medical staff identification.
US07796043B2
A system for monitoring medication compliance in a patient includes an electronic pill that includes a drug-transporting device and an antenna positioned on a surface of the drug-transporting device. A detector is positionable external a gastrointestinal tract of a patient for detecting a presence of the antenna in the patient gastrointestinal tract.
US07796042B2
The aim of the invention is to simplify the attachment of RFID chips or RFID transponders to packagings. For this purpose, the RFID chips are produced as a single RFID label together with antenna elements that are functionally associated therewith. The chips or transponders can be attached to a packaging by means of corresponding devices during production of the printed material, during a subsequent treatment or finishing process of the printed material, during the preparation of the packaging, during production of the packaging or during filling of the packaging. At the time of attachment, the RFID chips can be tested and initialized. The invention allows to considerably simplify the so far complex processes required to integrate the RFID chips into different types of packaging.
US07796040B2
A smart connector system includes a machine connector disposed on a face of a surgical machine, an illumination ring located on the face of the surgical machine and disposed around a periphery of the machine connector, an RFID reader antenna located in close proximity to the machine connector and the face of the surgical machine, and an accessory connector adapted to couple with the machine connector. The accessory connector has an RFID tag antenna and is capable of attaching a tool to the surgical machine. When the accessory connector is brought within close proximity to the machine connector, a communications connection is established between the RFID tag antenna and the RFID reader antenna.
US07796031B2
A monitoring apparatus using video data taken and outputted by a plurality of security imaging apparatuses for monitoring is disclosed. The apparatus includes: a display part configured to display the video data; an alarm generating part configured to analyze the video data and to generate an alarm in the case in which irregularities are detected in an imaging area on the security imaging apparatus; and a control part configured to conduct control in which the control part switches a display of a screen on the display part from a display of a screen in general monitoring to a display of a screen to display a taken image of the imaging area in which the irregularities are detected when the alarm generated in the alarm generating part is detected and returns the display to the display of the screen in general monitoring at a predetermined timing from the detection of the alarm.
US07796028B1
Circuitry for detecting magnetic fields includes a first magnetoresistive sensor and a second magnetoresistive sensor configured to form a gradiometer. The circuitry includes a digital signal processor and a first feedback loop coupled between the first magnetoresistive sensor and the digital signal processor. A second feedback loop which is discrete from the first feedback loop is coupled between the second magnetoresistive sensor and the digital signal processor.
US07796025B2
A power line communication device configured to facilitate communications over a low voltage power line between a downstream user device and an external power line communication device is provided. In one embodiment, the device may include a communication module configured to communicate over a low voltage power line and a controller configured to control the module. The controller is configured to operate the module in a first configuration in which all repeating is disabled; and a second configuration wherein upstream repeating is enabled and downstream repeating is disabled. The controller may transition from the first configuration to the second configuration in response to a command received via the low voltage power line or upon determining that a triggering event has been detected such as an unacceptable data rate, error rate, or noise detection. In some embodiments, the device may form part of a utility meter and also transmit utility data to the power line communication device.
US07796022B2
A method of notification in a virtual receptionist system. The method begins by determining that a guest has arrived. The guest is determined without active participation from the guest. An alert is activated for each greeter in a plurality of greeters designated to greet guests. It is determined whether any greeter has acknowledged a corresponding alert. Thereafter, alerts corresponding to each greeter are de-activated when there is an acknowledgment.
US07796007B2
In an on-chip transformer, external electromagnetic field influences are reduced by providing an isolation transformer having primary and secondary windings with a figure 8 configuration so that current induced by an external magnetic field is nulled.
US07796000B2
Provided is a resonator filter using conductive plates having a curved surface to connect an input/output coaxial connector to a resonator. The resonator filter includes: a plurality of resonators for resonating; an input/output coaxial connector; an input/output supporting unit formed between the input coaxial connector and one of the resonators and/or between an output supporting unit formed between the output coaxial connector and other resonator for electrically and mechanically supporting the input/output coupling; and a connecting unit for connecting the input/output supporting unit and the input/output coaxial connector, wherein the input/output supporting unit is a conductive plate with a curved surface having a center axis similar to the resonators.
US07795992B2
The invention relates to an electrical circuit that includes a first signal path having differential partial paths. An interface circuit arranged in the first signal path suppresses the common-mode signals in a blocking region of the signal path, but essentially does not influence differential signal parts.
US07795991B2
An integrated circuit arrangement (1; 2; 3; 4) for setting a predefined phase difference (phi_target) between a first high-frequency signal (x1; x1p, x1n) and a second high-frequency signal (x2; x2p, x2n), comprising: e) a chain connection of a plurality (N) of basic circuits (10; 20; 30; 40), whereby each basic circuit has a first transmission line (11; 11p, 11n) for transmitting the first signal (x1; x1p, x1n), a second transmission line (12; 12p, 12n) for transmitting the second signal (x2; x2p, x2n), and a controllable phase-influencing means (13; 23; 33; 43), connected to the first transmission line, for controllably influencing the phase of the first signal, f) a phase difference detector (14; 34), which is connected to the output-side basic circuit and is formed to detect a current phase difference (phi_actual) between the first and second signal, g) a control unit (15; 35), which is connected to the phase difference detector and each controllable phase-influencing means (13; 23; 33; 43) and is formed to generate first digital control voltages, dependent on the current phase difference (phi_actual), as control signals (vt1, vt2, . . . ) for each phase-influencing means (13; 23; 33; 43), whereby the digital control voltage can assume only two different voltage values, and h) whereby each controllable phase-influencing means (13; 23; 33; 43;) has at least one first tunable capacitive unit (16; 16p, 16n; 46p, 46n), which is connected to the first transmission line and the control unit and is designed to delay the first signal depending on one of the first control signals.
US07795988B2
The invention relates to a compact automatic impedance adapter in a waveguide, characterised in that the impedance is controlled by plungers, filling the entire guide with a magic-tee coupler plane E/plane H modifying the electrical and magnetic field, one plunger modifying the electrical field (E) in the guide and the second modifying the magnetic field (H).
US07795986B2
A method, system and digital modulator for modulation are provided The modulator includes a dividing mechanism for dividing a reference clock by a divide value to produce a modulated signal associated with at least one input data, and a control unit for providing at least one divide sequence to the dividing mechanism. The at least one divide sequence includes a sequence of one or more divide values. The divide value of the divide sequence is configurable and selectively provided to the dividing mechanism based on the at least one input data. The method includes configuring at least one divide sequence including a sequence of one or more divide values, and selecting a divide value from the at least one divide sequence based on at least one input data. The method includes dividing a reference clock by the selected divide value and generating a modulated signal based on the divide operation. The system for modulation-based commutations link includes a modulation unit having a dividing mechanism for dividing a reference clock by a divide value, and a configuration register for one or more configurable divide sequences.
US07795984B2
Apparatus to generate signals with multiple phases are described. The apparatus includes a fixed multilayer stack providing a varying magnetic field and at least two sensors adjacent the fixed multilayer stack to sense the varying magnetic field and generate at least two output signals. The frequency of the output signals can be tuned by an input current.
US07795982B2
A surface-mount type crystal oscillator includes a container body with a recess, a first holding terminal and a second holding terminal provided in the recess, a crystal blank secured to the first and second holding terminals, and an IC chip including a first terminal and a second terminal on respective opposite sides of one end of the IC chip, the first and second terminals being used to electrically connect the amplification element within the IC chip to the crystal blank. In the recess, the first connection terminal is connected, by wire bonding, to one of a first circuit terminal connected to the first holding terminal and a second circuit terminal connected to the second holding terminal. The second connection terminal is connected, by wire bonding, to one of a third circuit terminal connected to the first holding terminal and a fourth circuit terminal connected to the second holding terminal.
US07795981B2
The invention teaches an amplifier (100) with an input signal (IN) coupled to the gate of a second transistor (Q2) and an output signal (OUT) coupled to an output node between a third resistor (R3) and the drain of the second transistor (Q2). A third transistor (Q3) is coupled in parallel between the output node and the gate of a second transistor (Q2). A first bias signal (Vbias) is coupled to the output node and the gate of the third transistor (Q3). The amplifier preferably also includes a plurality of switchable resistors coupled to the output node to adjust the output for process variations.The invention also describes a method of compensating for process variations in an output of an amplifier which comprises producing a reference signal dependent on the difference between a reference value and an actual value and switching one or more resistors into the output of the amplifier to adjust the output of the amplifier to reflect the process variations. The reference signal is produced by comparing the differential inputs of a reference input produced from a reference potential across a first resistor 302 having a reference value in series with a constant current source 304 and an actual input produced from an actual potential across a second resistor 303 having substantially the same reference value. The second resistor 303 is in series with the channel of a transistor 301.
US07795978B2
One aspect of the embodiments relates to a programmable gain circuit including an amplification unit amplifying an input signal, an input resistor coupled to an input terminal of the amplification unit, a feedback resistor coupled between an output terminal of the amplification unit and the input terminal of the amplification unit, a first switch switching a resistance value of the feedback resistor, a second switch switching a resistance value of the input resistor, and a control unit controlling the second switch such that the second switch switches the resistance value of the input resistor when the first switch switches the resistance value of the feedback resistor.
US07795976B2
An error amplifier can be used to control a power regulator transistor. The error amplifier has a main amplifier, a pull-up auxiliary amplifier, and a pull-down auxiliary amplifier that all drive an output. A compensating capacitor on the output sets a single dominant pole for all amplifiers, increasing stability. High slew rates are provided by increased slew current from the auxiliary amplifiers that turn on when the differential input has an absolute voltage difference larger than an intentional offset. The intentional offset is introduced into the auxiliary amplifiers by adjusting a p-channel to n-channel transistor ratio in a leg of the auxiliary amplifiers. A source degenerated resistor in the main amplifier reduces supply headroom and increases linearity by connecting sources of two differential transistors that receive the differential input. Cascode transistors increase gain and output impedance. Reliability is increased as no positive feedback is used in the amplifiers.
US07795975B2
An amplifier is disclosed. An input transistor receives an input voltage. An impedance unit is coupled to a first electrode of the input transistor. A current source is coupled to a second electrode of the input transistor. A push-pull output circuit comprises a PMOS transistor and a NMOS transistor electrically connected in series to output an output voltage. The first electrode of the input transistor is coupled to a control terminal of the NMOS transistor. A level shifting unit is coupled between the first electrode of the input transistor and the push-pull output circuit, for shifting a voltage of the first electrode of the input transistor and providing a shifted voltage corresponding to the voltage of the first electrode of the input transistor to the control terminal of the PMOS transistor.
US07795972B2
An amplifier includes steering stages to receive a control signal and collectively provide an output signal. Each steering stage receives an associated input signal and contributes to the output signal based on the control signal. The amplifier includes an attenuator to selectively attenuate the input signals to form different gain control ranges for the amplifier.
US07795963B2
A device for controlling least two peak power levels for an amplifier operating in pulse mode, comprising a premodulation stage and a power-locked stage. The premodulation stage has a first amplifier stage, having at least one amplifier (1) and one processing device (8) suitable for supplying a squarewave signal to the amplifier (1), and a second amplifier stage, having at least one amplifier (7) and one processing device (9) suitable for supplying a signal having a shape roughly identical to the shape of the applied modulation. The power-locked stage has a coupler and detector (11) for sampling at least a part of the signal at the output of the amplification subsystem and sending it to a video amplifier (22). A peak detector (24) and a level discriminator (25) are suitable for generating a modulation signal to an amplifier (20) and power supply means (21, 22, 23) are supplied for the amplifiers.
US07795960B2
A low power, low noise amplifier system includes at least one amplifier having first and second differential input terminals, first and second differential output terminals and providing a differential output; first and second input capacitors interconnected with the first and second differential amplifier input terminals; first and second feedback circuits containing first and second feedback capacitors, respectively, interconnected with the amplifier differential input and output terminals; an input chopper switch circuit for receiving a low frequency differential input and selectively, alternately swapping those low frequency differential inputs through the input capacitors to the differential input terminals of the amplifier; an output chopper switch for receiving and selectively, alternately swapping the amplifier differential outputs synchronously with the input chopper switch circuit; and a low pass filter responsive to the swapped differential outputs for providing a low noise, low power amplification of the low frequency differential inputs.
US07795950B2
A temperature detection circuit has a temperature sensor circuit whose output voltage changes with a variation in temperature. A reference voltage circuit generates a reference voltage. A comparator has an output terminal and compares an output voltage from the temperature sensor circuit with the reference voltage to generate one of a temperature detection signal and a temperature non-detection signal, the comparator having an output terminal. An operation preventing circuit is connected with the output terminal of the comparator such that immediately after activation of a power supply to the temperature detection circuit, the comparator generates the temperature non-detection signal.
US07795944B2
In a signal transmission system where an influence of the circuit characteristic variation of an input circuit on signal receiving operation cannot be ignored, there is provided a method of realizing a low-offset input circuit which is capable of conducting high-speed operation and always continuing signal receiving operation without increasing the number of terminals of a semiconductor integrated circuit and without the necessity of providing additional signal observing means and variation adjustment amount calculating means to the external of the semiconductor integrated circuit. In a signal receiver circuit having an input circuit, an automatic zero amplifier, an analog/digital converter circuit, an encoder circuit, and a signal holding circuit, an output error signal of the input circuit is amplified by the automatic zero amplifier, and the signal is digitalized or the digitalized signal is encoded as the occasion demands, and held by the holding circuit, and the circuit characteristic variation of the input circuit is adjusted by the held signal.
US07795938B2
An apparatus, including: a circuit which operates according to a clock signal, the circuit operating with a delay, and a clock generator which generates the clock signal with a duty ratio, the duty ratio being adapted to the delay.
US07795934B2
A method and apparatus is provided for providing a fine delay by switching on a capacitor delay. A coarse delay and/or a fine delay are implemented upon a reference signal based upon a phase shift between the reference signal and a feedback signal. A fine delay is implemented upon the reference signal based upon a phase shift between the reference signal and a feedback signal. Providing the fine delay includes switching on a capacitive delay. A synchronized output signal is generated based upon the fine delay.
US07795932B2
A reset signal generator of a semiconductor integrated circuit includes a counter that counts a clock signal in response to activation of a power-up signal and activates a count-result signal when the counted value reaches a target value, and a reset signal generating unit that activates a reset signal in response to the activation of the count result signal.
US07795931B2
An operational comparator 10 includes a current source circuit, load circuits driven by the current source circuit, and a current mirror circuit. The load circuits are constituted with MOS transistors, predetermined reference voltage is supplied to the gate terminals of MOS transistors, and each of signal voltages constituting the differential output signal of the differential output circuit is supplied to gate of MOS transistors.
US07795920B2
A semiconductor integrated circuit includes a flipflop holding and outputting input data according to a clock, the flipflop having: an input end to which data is input; an output end from which data is output; a first logic gate connected between the input end and the output end, the first logic gate operating according to the clock; a second logic gate connected between the first logic gate and the output end, the second logic gate operating according to the clock; and a buffer circuit. An input of the buffer circuit is connected to a node between the first logic gate and the input end. An output of the buffer circuit is connected to a node in an output side of the first logic gate. The buffer circuit transitions according to an enable signal from a high impedance state to a state in which a signal can be transmitted.
US07795914B2
A three stage circuit according to the invention comprises a data input, a data output, a control input, two voltage supply inputs. The first stage is electrically connected to the data input and control input and is defined by a combinatorial circuitry with two outputs. The second stage is defined by at least two transistors connected in series between the two voltage supply inputs with their inputs electrically connected to the respective outputs of the first stage and with a common output such that in connection with the first stage they operate as a tri-state gate. The third stage of that three stage circuit is electrically connected to the control input and the common output of the second stage. The three stage circuit is switched to a low leakage state by a control signal feed via the control input and setting the two transistors in their off state resulting in a second stage with a floating common output filtered by the third stage via the control signal actively driven the data output to a specific logic value.
US07795913B2
A programmable logic circuit is disclosed that includes a latch for enhancing the circuit logic capacity. In a multiplier configuration, the circuit comprises a logic block; and a latch having a latch output coupled to a logic block input, wherein the latch output computes an AND function of a first and second latch input.
US07795909B1
A programmable logic device that receives and stores configuration data in configurable random-access-memory has differential signal input buffer circuitry for receiving the configuration data from a configuration device in differential signal form at high speeds. The programmable logic device may have clock and data recovery circuitry that receives a reference clock and that generates a corresponding internal clock that is used for receiving the configuration data. Error detection circuitry may be used to detect errors occurring during data transmission. The configuration device may have a serializer that serializes parallel configuration data received from memory and differential signal output driver circuitry that provides the configuration data in differential signal form to the programmable logic device.
US07795906B2
A method and system for minimizing sub-threshold leakage in a logic block is disclosed. An NDR isolation device is coupled between the logic block and ground to form a virtual ground node. To put the logic block into sleep mode, the virtual ground control device raises the voltage at the virtual ground node above an isolation voltage, which causes NDR isolation device isolates the virtual ground node from ground. The virtual ground control device can then raise the voltage at the virtual ground node to the positive supply voltage to eliminate sub-threshold leakage currents the logic block. Alternatively, the virtual ground control device can raise the voltage at the virtual ground node to the positive supply voltage minus a retention voltage so that storage elements in the logic block can retain state information while still greatly reducing sub-threshold leakage current.
US07795900B1
An integrated circuit has a memory array with a four-plex of SEU-hardened memory cells. Each of the SEU-hardened memory cells has an orientation different from each of the other SEU-hardened memory cells in the four-plex, and each of the SEU-hardened memory cells has a different critical ion track. Providing a four-plex of SEU-hardened memory cells, each with a different critical ion track, reduces the probability of a single ion upsetting adjacent memory cells.
US07795892B2
Provided is a probe card capable of surely bringing probes into contact with a contact object regardless of a temperature environment of a test. To achieve the object, the probe card includes a plurality of probes that are made of a conductive material and come into contact with electrode pads of a semiconductor wafer to input or output an electric signal; a probe head that houses and holds the probes; a substrate that has a wiring pattern corresponding to the circuitry; and a space transformer that is stacked on the probe head, changes a space of the wiring pattern of the substrate and thus relays wires, and has electrode pads provided on a surface on a side opposed to the probe head in association with the relayed wires. Both ends of the probes come into contact with portions near the centers of the electrodes pads of the semiconductor wafer and the space transformer under an environment having an average temperature of a lowest temperature and a highest temperature in testing the semiconductor wafer.
US07795878B2
Systems and methods for determining the dimensions of insulating coating sections applied to a conductive component are disclosed. The method includes providing a specimen having an insulating coating section of a first surface area and a first thickness. The method further includes conducting a test of the specimen for propagating brush discharges. If the specimen exhibits propagating brush discharges, the method further includes reducing at least one of the first surface area and the first thickness to produce at least one of a second surface area or a second thickness, or reducing a first maximum distance that any portion of the insulating coating may extend from an adjacent static dissipative feature to produced a second maximum distance. In additional embodiments, insulating coating patterns may be established on the component based on at least one of the dimensions of the second surface area, the second thickness, or the second maximum distance.
US07795875B2
An electrostatic discharge (ESD) event and transient signal detection and measurement device and method are described. The device and method are able to distinguish between an ESD event and other non-ESD events.
US07795866B2
A method for forecasting a polishing end time or point, wherein an inductor 36 in a sensor is placed adjacent to the conductive film 28. The magnetic flux formed by the inductor 36 is monitored, and a change of magnetic flux induced in the conductive film 28 is detected. Based on the skin effect of the material of the conductive film 28 as a factor, a process is used in which an eddy current formed with the decrease of the film thickness by polishing increases and a process in which the eddy current formed with the decrease of the film thickness substantially decreases when the polishing is progressed. Based on the characteristic change of the magnetic flux induced in the conductive film 28, the polishing end point is forecasted, and at the same time, the magnetic flux induced in the conductive film 28 is alleviated or turned off.
US07795864B2
A casing inspection device with magnets and a multi-component flux sensors. The multicomponent sensor enables better definition of the size of defects, particularly in the azimuthal direction.
US07795860B2
A multiple probe acquisition system, such as for use with a value instrument, uses probes where each probe includes an acquisition circuit for acquiring from a circuit under test an electrical signal as digital data at a high rate, and then transferring the digital data from the probe to the instrument at a lower rate over a data bus for processing and display. The probe may be used to acquire analog waveforms or logic data from the electrical signal. The probe provides a very low input capacitance to the circuit under test, minimizing signal distortion, and is relatively inexpensive. The probes are time aligned by detecting when one of the probes generates a trigger, and timing the other probes to stop acquisition simultaneously so the data is synchronized among the probes.
US07795857B1
A band gap voltage reference circuit includes a first band gap circuit configured to generate a first band gap voltage potential. A second band gap circuit includes a variable resistance. The second band gap circuit is configured to output a second band gap voltage potential based on a value of the variable resistance. A calibration circuit is configured to adjust the variable resistance of the second band gap circuit based on the first band gap voltage potential and the second band gap voltage potential. The first band gap circuit is shut down in response to the second band gap voltage potential being within a predetermined range of the first band gap voltage potential.
US07795852B2
The present invention provides an apparatus for adjusting a working frequency of a VRD. The apparatus includes a current detecting circuit, a variable resistance module, and a controller. The current detecting circuit is adapted for determining an output load state of the VRD by detecting a value of a current outputting from the VRD, and outputting a control signal for adjusting the working frequency of the VRD according to the output load state of the VRD. The variable resistance module is coupled to the VRD, and is adapted for providing an external resistor to the VRD. The controller is coupled to the current detecting circuit, and is adapted for receiving the control signal, and adjusting a resistance of the variable resistance module, so as to adjust the working frequency of the VRD.
US07795847B2
A power supply device has an input for an AC input voltage or for a DC input voltage and an output for a load-dependent DC output voltage electrically isolated therefrom. A step-up converter is connected to the input side, a charging coil, a first switching element, a freewheeling diode, a charging capacitor and means for regulating the voltage of a converter DC input voltage are provided on the output side at the step-up converter unit by a pulse-width-modulated activation of the first switching element. The power supply device has a switched-mode DC/DC converter connected to the step-up converter unit, a second switching element with a transformer for electrical isolation, and means for closed-loop controlled predefined, load-dependent voltage reduction of the DC output voltage by pulse-width-modulated activation. The second switching element is controlled by a constant converter pulse duty factor. The first switching element is controlled by a converter pulse duty factor such that the converter DC input voltage decreases with increasing load.
US07795836B2
A motor control device includes: an operation amount setting unit that sets an operation amount of a motor for driving a driving target according to a predetermined driving signal; and a control unit that generates the driving signal. The control unit generates an initial driving signal such that a velocity of the driving target follows an external velocity command, generates a cyclic signal having a cycle according to an angular velocity of a motor shaft of the motor, and generates the driving signal by multiplying the initial driving signal and the cyclic signal, based on at least one of a position and a velocity of the driving target.
US07795827B2
The present invention discloses a control system for controlling a motor for a heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) or a pump comprising: an opto-isolated speed command signal processing interface into which a signal for controlling a speed of the motor is inputted and which outputs an output signal for controlling the speed of the motor being transformed as having a specific single frequency; a communication device into which a plurality of operation control commands of the motor; an opto-isolated interface for isolating the plurality of operation control commands inputted through the communication device and the transformed output signal for controlling the speed of the motor, respectively; a microprocessor, being connected to the opto-isolated interface, for outputting an output signal for controlling an operation of the motor depending on the plurality of operation control commands and the transformed output signal for controlling the speed of the motor; a sensor, being connected to the motor, for outputting a rotor position sensing signal of the motor; a logic control circuit, being connected to the opto-isolated interface, the microprocessor, and the sensor, respectively, for adding the rotor position sensing signal and the output signal for controlling the operation of the motor; a power switch circuit being connected to feed electric power to the motor; a gate drive circuit, being connected to the logic control circuit and the power switch circuit, respectively, for driving the power switch circuit; and a power supply device being connected to the logic control circuit, the power switch circuit, and the gate drive circuit, respectively, for feeding electric power thereto.
US07795820B2
An emulation circuit is disclosed for connection to a low energy lamp energized by an AC supply and substituted for an incandescent lamp in a traffic signal installation. The circuit comprises means for sensing the magnitude of a supply voltage applied to energize the lamp connected to the terminals and means for sensing correct operation of the lamp. When the lamp is sensed to be operating correctly an auxiliary load intermittently to draw an additional current through the auxiliary load from the AC supply. The additional current is drawn only between preset phase angles of the cycles of the AC supply and the magnitude of the additional current drawn by the auxiliary load is varied in dependence upon the sensed magnitude of the supply voltage.
US07795815B2
The invention provides an optical source device and a projector including the optical source device, in which a microwave is used to reduce the size, and increase the life span.The optical source device according to the invention includes a solid high frequency oscillating unit that outputs a high frequency signal, a waveguide that receives the high frequency signal output from the solid high frequency oscillating unit and radiates the received high frequency signal as a microwave, and a light emitting unit that emits light by the microwave radiated from the waveguide unit. A container of the waveguide unit has a space surrounded by reflective surfaces that reflect the microwave radiated from the antenna unit so as to collect the microwave. The projector includes this optical source device, an optical modulating unit that modulates a light beam emitted from the light emitting unit of the optical source device according to image information to form an optical image, and a projecting unit that projects the optical image formed by the optical modulating unit.
US07795812B2
A plasma display device includes: a plasma display panel including an address electrode disposed on a first substrate, a pair of first and second display electrodes disposed on a second substrate and crossing the address electrode, a dielectric layer covering the first and second display electrodes on the second substrate, an MgO protective layer covering the dielectric layer on the second substrate, and discharge gases filled between the first and second substrates; a driver that drives the plasma display panel; and a controller that controls a sustain pulse width of a sustain period to be 1 to 3.5 μs. The MgO protective layer includes 100 to 300 ppm of Ca, 100 to 250 ppm of Al, 10 to 50 ppm of Fe, and 70 to 170 ppm of Si based on MgO. The plasma display device shows improved discharge stability and display quality due to reduced discharge delay time (Ts).
US07795807B2
An OLED has a first substrate, a second substrate, a plurality of organic emitting elements positioned in each sub-pixel, and an antireflective layer. The ratio of the area of the antireflective layer to that of the sub-pixel is between about 60% to about 87%.
US07795802B2
Optical devices fabricated from solvent processible polymers suffer from susceptibility to solvents and morphological changes. A semiconductive polymer capable of luminescence in an optical device is provided. The polymer comprises a luminescent film-forming solvent processible polymer which contains cross-linking so as to increase its molar mass and to resist solvent dissolution, the cross-linking being such that the polymer retains semiconductive and luminescent properties.
US07795801B2
An organic electroluminescent element comprising a light emission layer and a hole blocking layer adjacent to the light emission layer, wherein, (i) the light emission layer contains a compound having a specified partial structure and having a molecular weight of not more than 1700; and (ii) the hole blocking layer contains a derivative selected from the group consisting of a styryl derivative, a boron derivative and a carboline derivative.
US07795797B2
A phosphor made of phosphor particles coated with inorganic substance lamination, wherein an outermost layer is a transparent layer made of one or more of SiO2, Al2O3 and SiON, having a thickness of about 10 nm to about 500 nm, and formed by fluidized bed CVD, and a transparent inner coating layer is formed inside the outermost layer by a method different from the fluidized bed CVD. The inner coating may be formed by nonaqueous method not using a water content, for example sintering super-fine particles distributed on phosphor particles.
US07795794B2
An electron emission device includes a first plate and a second plate spaced apart and facing each other, a first electrode having an electron emission source electrically coupled thereto, the electron emission source including a carbon-based material and a ferroelectric material, a second electrode disposed adjacent to the first electrode, and a phosphor layer disposed so as to receive electrons emitted by the electron emission source.
US07795789B2
A piezoelectric component includes at least one monolithic piezo element, having at least a first electrode layer, at least a second electrode layer and at least one piezoceramic layer located between the electrode layers. The piezoelectric component is characterized in that at least between one of the electrode layers and the piezoceramic layer is provided an uncoupling layer which is in direct contact with at least one of the layers for mechanically uncoupling the electrode layer and the piezoceramic layer. A method for producing such a piezoelectric component is disclosed. The piezoelectric component is used in automotive technique for controlling an internal combustion engine injection valve.
US07795778B2
An actuator of the present invention includes a moving part, and a driving electrode which is comprised of electrode parts electrically isolated from each other and drives the moving part. A drive voltage is applied selectively to some of the electrode parts to control an electrostatic force which acts on the moving part.
US07795764B2
The invention relates to a machine with an uncooled rotor, which is mounted such that it is capable of rotating about an axis of rotation and which has cutouts or flattened portions on its outside. At least one rotor winding, which is accommodated in a cryostat with a cryostat wall and is to be cooled to low temperature, should be arranged in the cross-sectional area region of these flattened portions. A holding and/or support device is used for transmitting forces acting on the rotor winding beyond the cryostat wall to the rotor body. In order to reduce losses in the cooling system which occur as a result of thermal conduction, the holding and/or support device should contain at least one support element, which is equipped with means for reducing the thermal conductivity.
US07795755B2
A power converter system includes multiple converter modules connected to a share bus. Each of the converter modules mirrors the phase current of itself to provide a mirror current to the share bus, extracts an average current from the share bus, and compares the phase current of itself with the average current it extracts from the share bus to produce an output signal for modulation of the phase current of itself. Specifically, each of the converter modules is provided with a resistor connected to the share bus such that all the resistors are connected in parallel, and thus each of the resistors automatically receives an average current from the share bus.
US07795752B2
A method for distributing power generated by a power generation system may include determining available power that can be generated by the power generation system. The method may also include obtaining power requests from power transforming devices, comparing the available power to the power requests, and determining amounts of the available power to distribute to the power transforming devices. The method may further include obtaining operating condition requests from the power transforming devices, and determining the operating conditions under which the power generation system should operate.
US07795748B2
A system and process for generating hydroelectric power within a body of water uses head pressure existing between two depths of the water. A vertically arranged conduit has an upper water intake and is in fluid communication with a reservoir situated at a lower depth. In a first cycle, water flow is established in the conduit between the water intake and lower reservoir when the reservoir is substantially full of air but at a hydrostatic pressure less than the hydrostatic pressure at the top of the water conduit. A turbine mounted adjacent the reservoir and at a lower depth than the water intake drives an electric generator. As water is introduced into the reservoir, air is scavenged by a compressor and used to drive water from a second reservoir. After the first reservoir is generally full of water, valves are provided to cease the flow of water through the water intake and flow of air out the exhaust tube. An air pump thereafter introduces air scavenged from the first reservoir into the second reservoir to force water out of a second reservoir water outlet port. The generating cycle is then repeated.
US07795740B2
An interconnect structure and method of fabricating the same in which the adhesion between a chemically etched dielectric material and a noble metal liner is improved are provided. In accordance with the present invention, a chemically etching dielectric material is subjected to a treatment step which modified the chemical nature of the dielectric material such that the treated surfaces become hydrophobic. The treatment step is performed prior to deposition of the noble metal liner and aides in improving the adhesion between the chemically etched dielectric material and the noble metal liner.
US07795739B2
A semiconductor device is disclosed that includes an interposer and a semiconductor chip. The interposer includes a Si substrate; multiple through vias provided through an insulating material in corresponding through holes passing through the Si substrate; a thin film capacitor provided on a first main surface of the Si substrate so as to be electrically connected to the through vias; and multiple external connection terminals provided on a second main surface of the Si substrate so as to be electrically connected to the through vias. The second main surface faces away from the first main surface. The semiconductor chip is provided on one of the first main surface and the second main surface so as to be electrically connected to the through vias. The Si substrate has a thickness less than the diameter of the through holes.
US07795737B2
Integrated circuits and methods of redistributing bondpad locations are disclosed. In one implementation, a method of redistributing a bondpad location of an integrated circuit includes providing an integrated circuit comprising an inner lead bondpad. A first insulative passivation layer is formed over the integrated circuit. A bondpad-redistribution line is formed over the first insulative passivation layer and in electrical connection with the inner lead bondpad through the first insulative passivation layer. The bondpad-redistribution line includes an outer lead bondpad area. A second insulative passivation layer is formed over the integrated circuit and the bondpad-redistribution line. The second insulative passivation layer is formed to have a sidewall outline at least a portion of which is proximate to and conforms to at least a portion of the bondpad-redistribution line. Other aspects and implementations are contemplated.
US07795736B2
Embodiments include interconnect of electrically conductive material with a contact surface, and a dielectric layer overlying the contact surface with a trench and via in the dielectric layer, the via extending to the contact surface. An interlock material is in the via with an interlock opening extending through the interlock material and into the interconnect. A layer of electroless material is on the base of the trench and the surfaces of the via, interlock material, and interlock opening. An subsequent interconnect is formed on the electroless material, in the trench, via, and interlock openings. The structure can be repeated to form a stack or column of interconnects that resist delamination.
US07795729B2
A transceiver device includes a dielectric substrate, a ring member that is welded onto the dielectric substrate thereby forming a plurality of cavities, a cover that is welded onto the ring member, and at least one semiconductor device that is arranged in each of the cavities. The ring member has at least one passage that communicates between adjacent cavities. The passage is provided at a position shifted by substantially λg/4 or substantially n×λg/2+λg/4 from a center axis of the cavities. If there are two or more passages, the passages are arranged at a λg/2 interval, and one of the passages closest to the center axis is at a position shifted by substantially λg/4 from the center axis.
US07795718B2
A semiconductor package and a method for manufacturing the same is provided for minimizing or preventing warpage and twisting of semiconductor chip bodies as a result of thinning them during grinding. The semiconductor package includes a semiconductor chip body and a substrate. The semiconductor chip body has a first surface, a second surface facing away from the first surface, through-electrodes which pass through the semiconductor chip body and project from the second surface, and a warpage prevention part which projects in the shape of a fence along an edge of the second surface. The substrate has a substrate body and connection pads which are formed on an upper surface of the substrate body, facing the second surface, and which are connected with the projecting through-electrodes.
US07795717B2
An electronic component has a first semiconductor chip and a second semiconductor chip that is arranged on a plastic compound in which the first semiconductor chip is embedded. The semiconductor chips are connected to one another by rewiring layers and vias which extend between the rewiring layers, the vias being widened at a transition to one of the rewiring layers.
US07795710B2
A redistributed lead frame for use in molded plastic semiconductor package (38) is formed from an electrically conductive substrate by a sequential metal removal process. The process includes: (a) patterning a first side of an electrically conductive substrate to form an array of lands separated by channels, (b) disposing a first molding compound (18) within these channels, (c) patterning a second side of the electrically conductive substrate to form an array of chip attach sites (24) and routing circuits (26) electrically interconnecting the array of lands and the array of chip attached sites (24), (d) directly electrically interconnecting input/output pads on the at least one semiconductor device (28) to chip attach site members (24) of the array of chip attach sites (24), and (e) encapsulating the at least one semiconductor device (28), the array of chip attach sites (24) and the routing circuits (26) with a second molding compound (36). This process is particularly suited for the manufacture of chip scale packages and very thin packages.
US07795703B1
According to one exemplary embodiment, a bipolar transistor includes an active area situated between first and second isolation regions in a substrate. The bipolar transistor further includes an epitaxial extension layer situated on the active area, where the epitaxial extension layer extends over the first and second isolation regions. The bipolar transistor further includes a base layer situated on the epitaxial extension layer, where the base layer includes an epitaxial base, and where the epitaxial base includes a usable emitter formation area. The active area has a first width and the usable emitter formation area has a second width, where the second width is at least as large as the first width.
US07795700B2
An integrated circuit includes a first integrated circuit die having a first circuit and a first inductive interface and a second integrated circuit die having a second circuit and a second inductive interface. A substrate is coupled to support the first integrated circuit die and the second integrated circuit die, the substrate including a magnetic communication path aligned with the first inductive interface and the second inductive interface, to magnetically communicate signals between the first circuit and the second circuit.
US07795697B2
An optical navigation device includes an integrated package. The integrated package includes a planar leadframe, a light source die mounted on the leadframe, and a sensor die mounted on the leadframe to be coplanar with the light source die. The integrated package may be mounted at an angle or parallel to a navigation surface. The sensor die may be mounted at a distance from the light source die to detect specular or scattered reflection. The optical navigation device may be devoid of any optical element used to manipulate light generated by the light source die.
US07795696B2
A magnetoresistive memory element has a read module with a first pinned layer that has a magnetoresistance that is readable by a read current received from an external circuit. The element has a write module that receives a write current from the external circuit. A coupling module adjacent both the write module and the read module has a free layer that functions as a shared storage layer for both the read module and the write module. The shared storage layer receives spin torque from both the read module and the write module and has a magnetization that is rotatable by the write current.
US07795694B2
By bringing a tip of an AFM into contact with the surface of a GaAs substrate or an AlGaAs substrate, for example, applying a negative bias to the tip, and applying a positive bias to the GaAs substrate or the AlGaAs substrate, a donut-shaped oxide film is formed. Then, the oxide film is removed. As a result, a ring-shaped groove is formed in the surface of the GaAs substrate or the AlGaAs substrate. The oxide film can be removed by chemical etching, ultrasonic cleaning with water, a treatment with atomic hydrogen in a vacuum, or the like. Thereafter, a semiconductor film (InAs film or InGaAs film, for example) is epitaxially grown in the groove. Then, a capping layer which covers the semiconductor film and the GaAs substrate or the AlGaAs substrate is formed.
US07795687B2
A method of fabricating a MOSFET provides a plurality of nanowire-shaped channels in a self-aligned manner. According to the method, a first material layer and a semiconductor layer are sequentially formed on a semiconductor substrate. A first mask layer pattern is formed on the semiconductor layer, and recess regions are formed using the first mask layer pattern as an etch mask. A first reduced mask layer pattern is formed, and a filling material layer is formed on the surface of the substrate. A pair of second mask layer patterns are formed, and a first opening is formed. Then, the filling material layer is etched to form a second opening, the exposed first material layer is removed to expose the semiconductor layer, and a gate insulation layer and a gate electrode layer enclosing the exposed semiconductor layer are formed.
US07795686B2
A semiconductor device, comprising a semiconductor nanowire having a first region with one of a PN junction and a PIN junction and a second region with a field effect transistor structure, a pair of electrodes connected to both ends of the semiconductor nanowire, and a gate electrode provided in at least a part of the second region via an insulating layer. The semiconductor nanowire has a P-type semiconductor portion and an N-type semiconductor portion, and one of the P-type semiconductor portion and the N-type semiconductor portion is a common structural element of both the first and second regions.
US07795676B2
A back-illuminated type solid-state imaging device is provided in which an electric field to collect a signal charge (an electron, a hole and the like, for example) is reliably generated to reduce a crosstalk. The back-illuminated type solid-state imaging device includes a structure 34 having a semiconductor film 33 on a semiconductor substrate 31 through an insulation film 32, in which a photoelectric conversion element PD that constitutes a pixel is formed in the semiconductor substrate 31, at least part of transistors 15, 16, and 19 that constitute the pixel is formed in the semiconductor film 33, and a rear surface electrode 51 to which a voltage is applied is formed on the rear surface side of the semiconductor substrate 31.
US07795672B2
A field effect transistor that can be operated as a low voltage Class FN radio frequency (RF) amplifier with harmonic tuning is provided. The field effect transistor includes a common electrode, a gate, and multiple separate electrodes. The common electrode can comprise a source or drain, while the separate electrodes can comprise drains or sources, respectively. The gate can be profiled in a manner that forms multiple gate sections, each having a unique gate length within the gate sections. Each separate electrode can correspond to one of the plurality of gate sections. When operated as a Class FN RF amplifier with a linear harmonic input, the output signal will comprise a non-linear square wave with sharp fronts and relatively flat peak states.
US07795667B2
A semiconductor device comprises a non-volatile memory including a memory cell array, element isolating regions, a second trench and a word line. The memory cell array is constituted by memory cells which have floating electrodes and are arranged in the shape of a matrix on a semiconductor substrate. Each of the element isolating regions has a first trench formed in the semiconductor substrate and between memory cells adjacent to each other along a gate width direction, and an isolating filler filled in the first trench. The second trench is formed in the isolating filler and between the floating electrodes of the memory cells adjacent to each other along the gate width direction, and is narrow at the bottom thereof. The word line is connected to the memory cells, buried in the second trenches and extending along the gate width direction.
US07795651B2
A one transistor DRAM device includes: a substrate with an insulating layer, a first semiconductor layer provided on the insulating layer and including a first source region and a first region which are in contact with the insulating layer and a first floating body between the first source region and the first drain region, a first gate pattern to cover the first floating body, a first interlayer dielectric to cover the first gate pattern, a second semiconductor layer provided on the first interlayer dielectric and including a second source region and a second drain region which are in contact with the first interlayer dielectric and a second floating body between the second source region and the second drain region, and a second gate pattern to cover the second floating body.
US07795648B2
A semiconductor device, having a memory cell region and a peripheral circuit region, includes an insulating film, having an upper surface, formed on a major surface of a semiconductor substrate to extend from the memory cell region to the peripheral circuit region. A capacitor lower electrode assembly is formed in the memory cell region to upwardly extend to substantially the same height as the upper surface of the insulating film on the major surface of the semiconductor substrate. Additionally, the lower electrode assembly includes first and second lower electrodes that are adjacent through the insulating film. A capacitor upper electrode is formed on the capacitor lower electrode through a dielectric film, to extend onto the upper surface of the insulating film. The capacitor lower electrode includes a capacitor lower electrode part having a top surface and a bottom surface. A semiconductor device organized as just described, permits implementation having a high density of integration while ensuring the capacitor exhibits high reliability and a constant capacitance.
US07795646B2
A semiconductor device includes a first metal region, a plurality of vias, a plurality of second metal regions, a plurality of openings and a third metal region. The first metal region conducts source/drain current. The second metal regions are electrically connected to the first metal region through the vias for conducting the source/drain current, in which each of the second metal regions is disposed in a distance from the adjacent second metal regions. The third metal region is electrically connected to the second metal regions through the openings, in which the resistance of the third metal region is smaller than the resistances of the first metal region and the second metal regions.
US07795639B2
A photodiode designed to capture incident photons includes a stack of at least three superposed layers of semiconductor materials having a first conductivity type. The stack includes: an interaction layer designed to interact with incident photons so as to generate photocarriers; a collection layer to collect the photocarriers; a confinement layer designed to confine the photocarriers in the collection layer. The collection layer has a band gap less than the band gaps of the interaction layer and confinement layer. The photodiode also includes a region which extends transversely relative to the planes of the layers. The region is in contact with the collection layer and confinement layer and has a conductivity type opposite to the first conductivity type so as to form a p-n junction with the stack.
US07795638B2
A cell of a semiconductor device comprises a substrate of n-type with a trench formed in a portion of a first main surface of the substrate and filled with insulator. Two device-feature regions are formed beneath the first main surface of the substrate, the first one at one side and the second one at the other side of the trench. A region of a p-type and/or a region of metal is formed in the first device feature region and is connected to a first electrode. A p-n junction is formed in the second device feature region and the p-region of the p-n junction is connected to a second electrode. A U-shaped region is formed between the two device regions. An IGBT without tail during turning-off can be fabricated with a simple process at a low cost.
US07795631B2
A light-emitting device, including a compound semiconductor layer disposed on a substrate, includes a light-emitting layer, and a dielectric constant change structure formed in a part of the compound semiconductor layer including a main surface as a light extraction surface of the compound semiconductor layer. The dielectric constant change structure is devoid of revolution symmetry provided by randomly changing a periodicity of a dielectric constant in a two-dimensional lattice pattern, with respect to a photonic crystal structure in which more than two kinds of materials having different dielectric constants are periodically and alternately disposed on the main surface in the two-dimensional lattice pattern.
US07795629B2
A method for manufacturing a light-emitting diode display is provided. The method includes pre-fixing first, second, and third light-emitting diodes on a light emitting unit production substrate to produce light-emitting units each including first, second, and third light-emitting diodes, first electrodes of the first, second, and third light-emitting diodes being connected to a sub-common electrode. The method also includes transferring and fixing the light-emitting units from the light-emitting unit production substrate to a display substrate to produce a light-emitting diode display including the light-emitting units which are arranged in a first direction and a second direction perpendicular to the first direction (i.e., arranged in a two-dimensional matrix).
US07795611B2
A field effect organic transistor includes a source electrode, a drain electrode, a gate electrode, a gate insulating layer and an organic semiconductive layer; in the field effect organic transistor, the organic semiconductive layer includes a first organic semiconductive layer forming a channel region and a second organic semiconductive layer arranged to abut the first organic semiconductive layer; the charge mobility (μ1) in the first organic semiconductive layer is 10−3 cm2/Vs or more; the charge mobility (μ2) in the second organic semiconductive layer is 10−4 cm2/Vs or less; and the ratio (μ1/&μ2) between the two organic semiconductive layers is 10 or more.
US07795607B2
An apparatus comprising a substrate, an electrode coupled to the substrate, a modifiable layer coupled to the electrode, and a current focusing layer coupled to the modifiable layer. The current focusing layer comprises a conductive region and an insulating region. A method comprising forming a modifiable layer on an electrode and forming a current focusing layer on the modifiable layer.
US07795604B2
The present invention provides a trolley wire wear measurement device by image processing in which a line sensor is arranged vertically and upward on a roof of an inspection car so that the line sensor looks up to a trolley wire and a lighting means that illuminates the trolley wire is formed by arranging a plurality of point light sources in a straight line in a direction perpendicular to a travelling direction of the inspection car on the inspection car.
US07795589B2
A method includes determining a transmission of a transmissive window and a transmission of a transmissive fluid. In addition, an infrared emission of the transmissive window is determined along with an infrared emission of the transmissive fluid for at least one temperature. In a system that has an infrared sensor and an optical pathway to the infrared sensor, the transmissive window and the transmissive fluid are placed in the optical pathway. A semiconductor chip is placed in the optical pathway proximate the transmissive fluid. Radiation from the optical pathway is measured with the infrared sensor. An emissivity of the semiconductor chip is determined using the measured radiation and the determined transmissions and emissions of the transmissive window and the transmissive fluid.
US07795584B2
An automatic electrically powered dispenser for dispensing a product stored in the dispenser includes an active IR sensor system for detecting a user. The IR sensor system includes at least one IR emitter and at least one IR receiver. The IR sensing system is arranged to scan for the presence of a possible user at a certain scanning rate. A sensor control system supplies the active IR emitter(s) with a first current which is constant during one or more single scans and is altered to a different, second current for further scanning. The first and second currents are determined on the basis of a signal strength of the average received IR which is received by the IR receiver(s) during a number of previous single scans. In a simplified system, the average value of the most recently received IR values may be compared to a standard value set in the control system to alter the current supplied to the IR emitter(s).
US07795583B1
A long-range active thermal imaging system includes an electromagnetic radiation source in the range of from about 10 GHz to about 500 GHz; a beam controller for receiving and retransmitting the electromagnetic radiation in a desired direction toward and onto a surface of a target, thereby heating the target and producing an infrared radiation emission from the target surface; and an infrared imager, e.g. an infrared camera coupled to a processor and display, for receiving the target's infrared radiation emission and generating a thermal image of the target. The radiation source may be selected such that the radiation penetrates into the target to provide a thermal signature, e.g. from subsurface features or objects. The thermal signature exhibits rapid changes that can be monitored in real time. This may allow surface or subsurface details or objects to be detected that would not otherwise be apparent.
US07795580B2
A sample solution introduction device for a mass spectroscope includes a container device including a container having an opening at a top portion thereof and a blocking plug for blocking the opening, a gas supply device for supplying predetermined gas into the container, a first inner container provided inside the container, and an inner container supporting device for suspending and supporting the first inner container to the blocking plug. A liquid transmission pipe passes through the blocking plug. The liquid transmission pipe has one end to be soaked in a liquid sample inside the first inner container, and the other end located outside the container. The liquid sample is pushed by gas pressure supplied by the gas supply device.
US07795575B2
The light-emitting device includes a base substrate and preferably three light-emitting diodes respectively associated with three primary colors and emitting a part of their signal in the direction of the base substrate. The device includes three chromatic photodetectors formed in the base substrate constituting a semiconducting substrate, and each arranged under an associated light-emitting diode. Each chromatic photodetector includes superposed first, second and third layers. The first layer and third layer have a first type of conductivity and the second layer has a second type of conductivity. The device includes a control component connected to the chromatic photodetectors and to the light-emitting diodes to control the global color of the light emitted by the device.
US07795573B2
An imaging device and method of fabricating the same is disclosed. The imaging device may include an imaging sensor base, an image detector and a multilayer board. The imaging sensor base has a bonded hub having uniform flatness. The mounting hub sized to fit into a receptacle in the multilayer board. The image detector sized to match a size of the imaging sensor base and bonded to a top surface of the imaging sensor base. The imaging device may also include a readout integrated circuit (ROIC) sized to substantially match the size of the imaging sensor base and disposed on the image detector. A plurality of equi-spaced flexures and receptacles for receiving the plurality of flexures may also be used to maintain positional stability and minimize thermal strain.
US07795571B2
An imaging apparatus capable of suppressing deterioration of image qualities and output properties is provided having one or more output circuits in series and a buffer circuit 6, and processing luminance signals from photodetectors to output image information, the buffer circuit performing impedance conversion on signals outputted from a final output circuit of the one or more output circuits, the final output circuit being a source follower circuit that has an active element and a current source circuit 5 which is inserted between a source terminal of the active element and a reference voltage terminal, wherein the current source circuit and the buffer circuit 6 are external to a solid-state image sensor 1 having the photodetectors, and a main part of the current source circuit 5 and a main part of the buffer circuit 6 are in a single package.
US07795569B2
A focal plane detector for imaging objects within a scene and having integral processing means for detecting edges of objects within the scene. The focal plane detector comprises a plurality of detector elements arranged to measure the intensity of the electromagnetic radiation incident thereon and processing means integral to the focal plane detector for combining the intensity measurements so as to indicate the difference in the intensity of the electromagnetic radiation. The focal plane detector is arranged such that the output from the focal plane detector corresponds to edges of objects within the scene. The focal plane detector may be arranged to be sensitive to infrared radiation.
US07795564B2
An optical system comprising a first optical unit and a first sensor unit for sensing electromagnetic radiation. The optical system also comprises a micromirror matrix unit which is arranged in the beam path between the first optical unit and the first sensor unit. The micromirror matrix unit is arranged to be able to be set in at least a first and a second state. In the first state, the micromirror matrix unit reflects incident electromagnetic radiation such that it reaches the first sensor unit. In the second state, the micromirror matrix unit reflects incident electromagnetic radiation such that it does not reach the first sensor unit. The invention also concerns a target-seeking system comprising such an optical system.
US07795561B2
In a steam cooker, a tray-shaped case (51) of a steam temperature-raising device (50) has a recessed part (51a) into which steam from a steam generator flows through steam supply ports (95A-95C) provided in a first sidewall (91). First and second steam superheaters (52, 53) are placed in the recessed part (51a) of the tray-shaped case (51) so as to be axisymmetrical with respect to a center line (L). A plurality of steam outlets (101A-104A, 101B-104B) for supplying steam into a heating chamber sideways are provided in second and third sidewalls (92A, 92B) adjoining the sidewall (91) having the steam supply ports (95A-95C) of the recessed part (51a), and on the opposite side of the steam supply ports (95A-95C). The tray-shaped case (51) is placed on a ceiling panel of the heating chamber and at steam outlets with an opening of the recessed part (51a) directed downward.
US07795550B2
A multipole switching device for selectively switching electrical power from an electrical power source to a load circuit. The switching device comprises a first control device comprising a housing, an electromechanical actuator in the housing including a movable plunger, and an electrical switch. A pin operatively connects the plunger to the electrical switch. A second control device comprises a housing mountable adjacent the first control device, an electromechanical actuator in the housing including a movable plunger, and an electrical switch. A pin operatively connects the plunger to the electrical switch. A tie bar is operatively connected to the pins to mechanically tie the first control device plunger to the second control device plunger.
US07795538B2
Flexible insulated wires for use in a high temperature environment include a conductor and a coating over the conductor. The coating is formulated from a dielectric material and an organic binder having an organic component, wherein the organic component has been substantially decomposed from the coating during manufacture. The flexible insulated wire may be incorporated into a component.
US07795534B2
A sliding cover faceplate and an electronic device using the same are provided. The sliding cover faceplate includes a sliding cover, a cover plate, and a sliding structure. The cover plate is provided on the electronic device, and the sliding cover is disposed on one side of the cover plate. The sliding structure includes a guiding portion and an elastic positioning portion. The guiding portion is disposed on the cover plate and is connected to the sliding cover to guide the sliding cover to slide between a first location and a second location on the cover plate. The elastic positioning portion connects the cover plate with the sliding cover to provide an elastic force to the sliding cover, such that when the sliding cover slides close to the first location or the second location, the sliding cover is automatically positioned on the first location or the second location.
US07795533B2
An in-ceiling cabling enclosure for supporting communications network equipment and cables interconnecting the network equipment including a front wall, a rear wall, and two side walls extending between the front wall and the rear wall creating a volume inside the enclosure. An access door assembly is pivotally connected to either the rear wall or the two side walls. An equipment mount plate is attached to an interior portion of the access door assembly, and opposed equipment mount rails are removably attached to the equipment mount plate. A cable slack management tray extends between the opposed equipment mount rails, and the slack management tray has a surface adapted to support and maintain the position and the contour of cable bundles located in the enclosure. A thermal management system is also disposed in the housing to provide efficient exhaust of hot air generated by active equipment in the enclosure to the space outside of the enclosure.
US07795530B2
The invention relates to a system (1) for conducting lightning currents and/or fault currents away from a roof area (2) and/or façade area of a building (3) to the ground (4). According to the invention, the system is equipped with at least one strip (5), which is laid in the roof area (2) and/or façade area of the building (3) and at least one potential compensation system for the building (3). The strip (5) comprises at least one electrically conductive layer for shielding electromagnetic radiation and the strip (5) is connected to the potential compensation system in such a way that lightning currents and/or fault currents can be conducted away via the strip (5) and the building potential to the ground (4). By linking the strip (5) to the potential compensation system of the building (3), lightning currents and/or fault currents, which occur for example when an electric installation malfunctions, can be conducted away in a targeted manner, thus eliminating any risk to persons in the roof area (2) and/or façade area of the building (3).
US07795526B2
Apparatus and method for reproducing a MIDI-based music file are provided. According to the apparatus and method, a plurality of notes and note reproduction times are extracted from the MIDI file, a section where envelope values of sound source samples exponentially reduce is changed into a linear section, and the sound source samples are outputted according to the note reproduction times by reflecting the slope of the linear section.
US07795525B2
When it is determined that Insertion Effect Block 20n for adding the same acoustic effect is found, CPU 13 assigns the Insertion Effect Block 20n for adding the same acoustic effect to a tone color part PTs whose tone color information has been changed, and when it is determined that Insertion Effect Block 20n for adding the same acoustic effect is not found, CPU 13 sets acoustic-effect information included in tone color information set to the tone color part PTs whose tone color information has been changed, thereby assigning the Insertion Effect Block 20n to the tone color part PTs whose tone color information has been changed.
US07795522B1
Wind musical instrument moisture drying devices are disclosed. The device includes a core member, a base member and an optional flexible adaptor member. The core member includes a hollow enclosure, a fan, an electric energy source and a fan operations control unit. The fan is mounted on top of the hollow enclosure, while the electric energy source and the fan operations control unit are housed inside. The base member contains at least one extrusion element located on the surface of the hollow enclosure substantially near the bottom. The extrusion element is configured to be orientated radially outward from the centerline of the hollow enclosure. The core member and the base member can be fixedly connected to each other, or connected via a connecting device. The flexible adaptor member is configured for receiving the based member to be flexibly adjusted or reshaped to be snuggled with inside surface of a wind musical instrument.
US07795508B1
According to the invention, there is provided a novel soybean variety designated XB009C09. This invention thus relates to the seeds of soybean variety XB009C09, to the plants of soybean XB009C09 to plant parts of soybean variety XB009C09 and to methods for producing a soybean plant produced by crossing plants of the soybean variety XB009C09 with another soybean plant, using XB009C09 as either the male or the female parent.
US07795502B2
This invention describes novel DNA sequences that function as promoters of transcription of associated nucleotide sequences. More specifically, this invention describes DNA sequences conferring constitutive expression to an associated nucleotide sequence. The invention also describes recombinant sequences containing such promoter sequences. The said recombinant DNA sequences may be used to create transgenic plants, but especially transgenic plants expressing a nucleotide sequence of interest at all times and in most tissues and organs.
US07795495B2
The methodologies of the present invention demonstrate that a critical balance between pro- and anti-amyloidogenic molecules exists that regulates amyloid formation and cell death in Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease. β-Synuclein, the non-amyloidogenic homologue of α-synuclein, is a negative modulator of α-synuclein and Aβ aggregation, having neuroprotective properties against α-synuclein and Aβ neurotoxicity and that β-synuclein and therapeutic agents derived therefrom block amyloidogenesis and neurodegeneration in vivo. The method of the present invention establishes that β-synuclein blocks Aβ aggregation either by direct inhibition of Aβ amyloidogenesis or indirectly via either α-synuclein or its 35 a.a. NAC region, inferring neuroprotective characteristics within the effected cells. The generation of a transgenic mouse line and a cell system overexpressing α-synuclein characterizes the mechanisms by which β-synuclein blocks α-synuclein and Aβ aggregation and that this mechanism offers protection to the cell against amyloid formation as seen in the pathologies of Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease.
US07795459B2
Paricalcitol, a synthetic vitamin D analog, is purified to a purity greater than 99.7% by crystallization from solution in isopropyl acetate solvent, followed by filtration and vacuum drying. Isopropyl acetate appears to be unique among commonly available and pharmaceutically acceptable solvents in its ability to precipitate paricalcitol in this high purity, essentially free of isomers thereof.
US07795451B2
Disclosed herein are novel polymorphic forms of Fluvastatin sodium, wherein said polymorphic forms are designated as JF, JF1, JF2, JF3 and are characterized by their powder X-ray diffraction patterns, Infrared absorption spectrums, thermo gravimetric analysis and differential scanning calorimetry. The processes for preparing said polymorphic forms are also disclosed. The present invention also relates to process for preparing amorphous form of Fluvastatin sodium.
US07795450B2
This invention provides a class of therapeutic compounds and methods for the treatment of mammals with physiological disorders, such as for example a frequently occurring type of essential hypertension, which are critically associated with the decreased binding of magnesium to the plasma membranes of their cells. These methods consist of administering to a mammal in need of such treatment a compound selected from a series of disubstituted trans,trans 1,3-butadienes, 1,3-disubstituted perhydrobutadienes, 1,2-disubstituted trans ethylenes and 1,2 disubstituted ethanes and disubstituted propanes, each of which embodies, in common, the unique structural feature essential for the biological activity of these compounds. This invention also provides for pharmaceutical formulations that employ these novel compounds.
US07795449B2
An object is to provide an aromatic amine compound with excellent heat resistance. Another object is to provide a light emitting element, a light emitting device, and an electronic device with excellent heat resistance. An aromatic amine compound represented by General Formula (1) is provided. The aromatic amine compound represented by General Formula (1) has a high glass transition point and excellent heat resistance. By using the aromatic amine compound represented by General Formula (1) for a light emitting element, a light emitting device, and an electronic device, a light emitting element, a light emitting device, and an electronic device with excellent heat resistance can be obtained.
US07795440B2
The invention is directed to N-substituted tricyclic 3-AMINOPYRAZOLE derivatives, which are useful as inhibitors of platelet-derived growth factor receptor (PDGF-R) kinase, and methods for the preparation of said derivatives. The present invention is further directed to pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds of the present invention and to methods for treating conditions such as tumors and other cell proliferative disorders.
US07795437B2
The present invention relates to ether derivatives according to general formula I, and to their pharmaceutically-acceptable salts, which may be used in treating or preventing cognitive disorders, drug addiction, depression, anxiety, drug dependence, dementias, memory impairment, psychotic disorders comprising schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorders, bipolar disease, mania, psychotic depression, or psychoses comprising paranoia and delusions.
US07795434B2
Alkaloid reaction products obtainable in a process wherein alkaloids are reacted with an alkylating agent, preferably thiotepa, whereafter unreacted alkylating agent and other water-soluble compounds are removed from the reaction mixture by washing with water or a suitable aqueous solvent, whereafter the reaction mixture is subjected to a treatment with strong acid, preferably hydrogen chloride (HCl), to precipitate a water soluble salt of the reaction products. The precipitated reaction products comprise at least one quaternary alkaloid derivative and are suitable as drugs for prophylactic or therapeutic application, particularly in the treatment of immunological or metabolic dysfunctions, and cancer.
US07795429B2
A material which can emit phosphorescence is disclosed. Further, a light-emitting element having good chromaticity is disclosed. An embodiment of the present invention is an organometallic complex including a structure as represented by the general formula (1): wherein R1 represents an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms; each of R2 to R5 represents any one of hydrogen, a halogen element, an acyl group, an alkyl group, an alkoxyl group, an aryl group, a cyano group, and a heterocyclic group; Ar represents an aryl group or a heterocyclic group, preferably, an aryl group having an electron withdrawing group or a heterocyclic group having an electron withdrawing group; and M represents a Group 9 element or a Group 10 element. By virtue that the Ar has an electron withdrawing group, an organometallic complex which emits phosphorescence with higher emission intensity can be obtained.
US07795409B2
The invention relates to newly identified cancer associated antigens. It has been discovered that each of these molecules provokes antibodies when expressed by a subject. The ramifications of this observation are also a part of this invention.
US07795407B2
Gene sequences as shown in SEQ ID NO:1-18 have been discovered and isolated, and found to be significantly associated with metastatic spread of breast and colon cancer cells to other organs. Methods are provided for determining the risk of metastasis of a breast or colon tumor, which involve determining whether a tissue sample from a tumor expresses a polypeptide encoded by a gene as shown in SEQ ID NOS:1-18, or a substantial portion thereof. One of the gene sequences encodes a novel aspartyl protease termed CSP56, which can be used to provide reagents and methods for determining which tumors are likely to metastasize and for suppressing metastases of these tumors. Clinicians can use this information to predict which tumors will metastasize to other organs and to provide relevant therapies to appropriate patients.
US07795405B2
After the sequencing of the human genome, great interest has developed in trying to discern the complementary proteome of humans and other species. The present disclosure provides devices, systems, and methods for proteomic fractionation that may increase the number of protein spots visualized by 2DE analysis, and may allow enrichment of proteins normally not detectable by standard 2DE analysis. According to some embodiments of the disclosure, devices, systems, and methods of the disclosure relate to fractionating a proteome on the basis of surface charge, hydrophobicity, isoelectric point and/or size.
US07795402B2
A pharmaceutical composition includes a purified antibody and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. The antibody is enriched for immunoglobulins having both an antigen-binding portion that binds a Staphylococcus aureus capsular polysaccharide antigen and a constant region that does not bind staphylococcal protein A.
US07795388B2
The present invention provides chaperonin polypeptides which are modified to include N-terminal and C-terminal ends that are relocated from the central pore region to various different positions in the polypeptide which are located on the exterior of the folded modified chaperonin polypeptide. In the modified chaperonin polypeptide, the naturally-occurring N-terminal and C-terminal ends are joined together directly or with an intervening linker peptide sequence. The relocated N-terminal or C-terminal ends can be covalently joined to, or bound with another molecule such as a nucleic acid molecule, a lipid, a carbohydrate, a second polypeptide, or a nanoparticle. The modified chaperonin polypeptides can assemble into double-ringed chaperonin structures. Further, the chaperonin structures can organize into higher order structures such as nanofilaments or nanoarrays which can be used to produce nanodevices and nanocoatings.
US07795386B2
Disclosed herein are peptides which include an isoDGR motif and which selectively inhibit αvβ3 integrin. In some embodiments, the isoDGR motif results from the deamidation of an NGR motif.
US07795383B2
The present invention provides an improved coating for surfaces of medical implants. The coating comprises at least one interfacial biomaterial (IFBM) which is comprised of at least one binding module that binds to the surface of an implant or implant-related material (“implant module”) and at least one binding module that selectively binds to a target analyte or that is designed to have a desired effect (“analyte module”). The modules are connected by a linker. In some embodiments, the IFBM coating acts to promote the recognition and attachment of target analytes to surface of the device. The IFBM coating improves the performance of implanted medical devices, for example, by promoting osteointegration of the implant.
US07795378B2
A peptide of the structural formula: or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, m and n are as defined. Further provided are methods for treatment of sexual dysfunction, including erectile dysfunction and female sexual dysfunction, and combination drugs and method of use thereof, including a peptide of the invention and one or more second sexual dysfunction pharmaceutical agents.
US07795374B2
A method of making antimicrobial quaternary ammonium polymers, comprising: a) mixing 1,4-bis-dimethylamino-2-butene, water, a first portion of triethanolamine and a first portion of acid; b) adding a 1,4-dihalo-2-butene and heating the reaction mixture; c) adding a second portion of triethanolamine and a second portion of acid, and d) isolating a quaternary ammonium polymer having a molecular weight of at least 26 k.
US07795365B2
The subject invention pertains to homogeneous liquid low molecular weight ethylene/alpha-olefin polymers having a number average molecular weight (Mn) as determined by gel permeation chromatography, of less than 25,000, a total crystallinity, as measured by DSC, of less than 10%, and a pour point, as measured by ASTM D97, of less than 50° C. The subject invention also pertains to homogeneous gel-like low molecular weight ethylene/alpha-olefin polymers having a number average molecular weight (Mn) as determined by gel permeation chromatography, of less than 25,000, a total crystallinity, as measured by DSC, of less than 50%, and a pour point, as measured by ASTM D97, of less than 90° C.
US07795364B2
UV curable compositions, polymeric photoinitiators and precursors therefor are described.
US07795354B2
An aqueous binder composition, useful for making fiber products, especially fiberglass insulation, comprising an aqueous substantially alkaline (pH of at least 5.0) solution of a polyol and a hydrolyzed (solubilized) copolymer of maleic anhydride and a vinyl aromatic compound, preferably styrene (i.e., a SMA copolymer); the copolymer is solubilized using ammonia, a secondary alkanolamine (preferably diethanolamine (DEA)), a tertiary alkanolamine (preferably triethanolamine (TEA)), or a mixture thereof and the binder composition is cured as a consequence of cross-linking, esterification reactions between pendant carboxyls on the solubilized (hydrolyzed) copolymer (SMA) chains and hydroxyl groups of the polyol, including the diethanolamine and/or triethanolamine preferably used in the solubilization of the SMA.
US07795352B2
A polypropylene composition comprising (percent by weight) (a) 50-77% of a crystalline propylene polymer having an amount of isotactic pentads (mmmm), measured by 13C-MNR on the fraction insoluble in xylene at 25° C., higher than 97.5 molar % and a polydispersity index ranging from 4 to 10; (b) 13-28% of an elastomeric copolymer of ethylene and propylene, the copolymer having an amount of recurring units deriving from ethylene ranging from 30 to 70% and being partially soluble in xylene at ambient temperature, the polymer fraction soluble in xylene at ambient temperature having an intrinsic viscosity value ranging from 2 to 4 dl/g; and (c) 10-22% of polyethylene having an intrinsic viscosity value ranging from 1 to 3 dl/g, in said composition component (b) plus component (c) being in amounts of at least 25 wt %. The polymer composition exhibits good impact resistant, whitening resistance and relatively low stiffness.
US07795347B2
A group of polymers comprising a plurality of polyolefin chains and polar polymer chains and having a multi-branched structure such as a block structure, a graft structure and a star-shaped structure is produced efficiently by polymerizing or reacting a combination of various polar monomers and their polymers i.e. polar polymer chains by using a functional group-containing polyolefin as a macroinitiator, a macromonomer or a reactive polymer. The resulting multi-branched polymer has a specific shape such as a block structure, a graft structure or a star-shaped structure, and has properties of both the polyolefin and polar polymer, thus exhibiting useful performance in various uses in films and compatibilizing agents as a novel polyolefin-based polymer.
US07795340B2
The invention relates to aqueous dispersions of water-soluble polymers of N-vinyl-carboxamides, which are substantially salt-free and comprise anionic polymeric stabilizers having a comb-like molecular structure, processes for the preparation of the dispersions in the presence of anionic polymeric stabilizers having a comb-like molecular structure and the use of the dispersions as retention aids or fixing agents in papermaking.
US07795325B2
An adhesive composition containing: (a) a thermoplastic resin; (b) a radical-polymerizable compound including two or more (meth)acryloyl groups; (c) a curing agent that generates a radical by photoirradiation of 150 to 750 nm and/or heating at 80 to 200° C.; and (d) a liquid rubber having a viscosity of 10 to 1000 Pa·s at 25° C.
US07795323B2
An active ray curable ink-jet ink comprising at least an organic pigment, a polymer dispersant, a photo-initiator and a cationic polymerizable compound, wherein the active ray curable ink-jet ink incorporates a quaternary ammonium salt and a content of the quaternary ammonium salt is not less than 5 ppm and not more than 500 ppm.
US07795318B2
A multi-stage process for the production of hydrocarbon products from syngas, each stage of the process comprising one or more syngas conversion reactors in which syngas is partially converted into hydrocarbon products at conversion conditions, each conversion reactor having a syngas entry stream system which system combines two or more entry streams of syngas and which system delivers the combined syngas to the syngas conversion reactor, the syngas entry system combining at least one entry stream of syngas being a syngas stream obtained in a partial oxidation process (for the first stage) or an exit stream of syngas from the previous stage, together with a reformed syngas (for all stages except the first stage), with another syngas stream being a recycle stream from the conversion reactor and a syngas exit stream system which discharges an exit stream of syngas from the reactor, the exit stream partly being used as the recycle stream to the syngas entry system as mentioned above, and, in the case that there is a further stage in the process, as feed for the next stage.
US07795312B2
A method for treating irritable bowel syndrome in a mammalian subject includes administering an effective amount of 13,14-dihydro-15-keto-16,16-difluoro-18-methyl-prostaglandin E1 or 13,14-dihydro-15-keto-16,16-difluoro-prostaglandin E1, or a salt, ether, ester or amide thereof, to the subject. A method for treating abdominal discomfort associated with irritable bowel syndrome in a mammalian subject includes administering an effective amount of 13,14-dihydro-15-keto-16,16-difluoro-18-methyl-prostaglandin E1 or 13,14-dihydro-15-keto-16,16-difluoro-prostaglandin E1, or a salt, ether, ester or amide thereof, to the subject.
US07795306B2
The present invention relates to the use of triterpenes of the formula (I): which are inhibitors of nuclear factor kappa B (NF-κB for use in the treatment of inflammatory diseases and for cancers susceptible to an NF-κB inhibitor. The present invention also relates to compounds and methods useful to inhibit cell proliferation and for the induction of apoptosis.
US07795292B2
Compounds of Formula 1 where the variables have the meaning defined in the specification are used to activate alpha2 adrenergic receptors. The compounds of Formula 1 are incorporated in pharmaceutical compositions and are used as medicaments in mammals, including humans, for treatment of diseases and or alleviations of conditions which are responsive to treatment by agonists of alpha2 adrenergic receptors.
US07795289B2
This invention discloses and claims a method of treatment of a disease as defined herein using a compound conforming to the general formula (I): Wherein R1, R2, R′2, R3, R4 and R5 are as described herein. Specifically, the compounds of the present invention exhibit an inhibitory effect on the production of β-amyloid peptide (β-A4) by inhibition of gamma protease. Therefore, the compounds of the present invention are useful in the treatment of pathologies such as senile dementia, Alzheimer's disease, Down's syndrome, Parkinson's disease, amyloid angiopathy and/or cerebrovascular disorders.
US07795288B2
The invention relates to thiazole and pyrazole derivatives of formula (I) wherein Q is S and X is C, or Q is CH and X is N; R1 is unsubstituted or substituted phenyl; and R2 is unsubstituted or substituted aryl or heteroaryl; or a salt of the said compounds, and to processes for the preparation thereof, to pharmaceutical compositions comprising such derivatives and to the use of such derivatives for the preparation of pharmaceutical compositions for the treatment especially of a proliferative disease, such as a tumour disease, in particular such diseases which respond to an inhibition of the Flt-3 kinase.
US07795286B2
The present invention relates to novel compounds of formula (1) and also to cosmetic compositions containing them and to the cosmetic uses thereof, in particular for protecting the skin against UV-induced oxidative stress.
US07795285B2
The present invention is to provide an anti-trypanosomiasis agent having a high selective toxicity, and high preventing or treating effect against trypanosomiasis, comprising a compound shown by the following general formula (1) as an active ingredient (wherein R1 and R2 each independently represents a hydrogen atom, halogen atom, hydroxyl group, oxygen atom, C1-5 alkyl group, C1-5 alkoxy group, C5-8 aryl group, C5-8 aryloxy group, C2-6 alkoxycarbonyl group or C2-6 alkylaminocarbonyl group, and may be bound to each other; R3, R4, and R5 each independently represents a C1-5 alkyl group or C5-8 aryl group; R6 and R7 each independently represents a hydrogen atom, halogen atom, hydroxyl group, oxygen atom, C1-8 alkyl group, C1-5 alkoxy group, C5-8 aryl group, C5-8 aryloxy group, or C2-6 alkoxycarbonyl group, and may be bound to each other; Y and Z each independently represents an atom group necessary to form a 5- or 6-membered heterocycle; m and n each represent 0 or 1; Q represents a physiologically acceptable anion; k represents an integer of 0 to 2, necessary to make the electric charge of the whole molecule 0).
US07795282B2
This invention relates to inhibitors of mitotic kinesins, particularly KSP, and methods for producing these inhibitors. The invention also provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising the inhibitors of the invention and methods of utilizing the inhibitors and pharmaceutical compositions in the treatment and prevention of various disorders.
US07795276B2
The compound 5-((3-(2,4-trifluoromethyphenyl)isoxazol-5-yl)methyl)-2 -(2-fluorophenyl)-5H-imidazo[4,5-c]pyridine, together with the salts and solvates thereof. Also provided are compositions comprising this compound and pharmaceutically acceptable carriers, as well as the use of such compositions in the treatment or prophylaxis of viral infections.
US07795266B2
Compositions comprising tetrahydroindolone derivatives in which the tetrahydroindolone moiety is covalently linked to a substituted arylpiperazine moiety and methods for treating neurological and psychiatric conditions using such compositions are disclosed.
US07795261B2
This invention concerns substituted I-piperidin-4-yl-4-pyrrolidin-3-yl-piperazine derivatives having neurokinin antagonistic activity, in particular NK1 antagonistic activity, a combined NK1/NK3 antagonistic activity and a combined NK1/NK2/NK3 antagonistic activity, their preparation, compositions comprising them and their use as a medicine, in particular for the treatment of schizophrenia, anxiety, depression, emesis and IBS. The compounds according to the invention can be represented by general Formula (I) and comprises also the pharmaceutically acceptable acid or base addition salts thereof, the stereochemically isomeric forms thereof, the N-oxide form thereof and prodrugs thereof, wherein all substituents are defined as in claim 1. In view of their capability to antagonize the actions of tachykinins by blocking the neurokinin receptors, and in particular antagonizing the actions of substance P and Neurokinin B by blocking the NK1, NK2 and NK3 receptors, the compounds according to the invention are useful as a medicine, in particular in the prophylactic and therapeutic treatment of tachykinin-mediated conditions, such as, for instance CNS disorders, in particular schizoaffective disorders, depression, anxiety disorders, stress-related disorders, sleep disorders, cognitive disorders, personality disorders, eating disorders, neurodegenerative diseases, addiction disorders, mood disorders, sexual dysfunction, pain and other CNS-related conditions; inflammation; allergic disorders; emesis; gastrointestinal disorders, in particular irritable bowel syndrome (IBS); skin disorders; vasospastic diseases; fibrosing and collagen diseases; disorders related to immune enhancement or suppression and rheumatic diseases and body weight control.
US07795260B2
Ecteinascidin compounds with a quinone ring for ring E are active as anti-cancer agents. Related processes and compounds are provided.
US07795258B2
A pyridazine compound represented by formula (1): wherein R1 and R2 are same or different and represent a C1-C4 alkyl group; R3 represents a halogen atom, a nitro group, a cyano group, a C1-C4 alkyl group optionally substituted by at least one halogen atom, a C1-C4 alkoxy group optionally substituted by at least one halogen atom or a C1-C4 alkylthio group optionally substituted by at least one halogen atom; R4 and R5 each represents a halogen atom, a nitro group, a cyano group, a C1-C4 alkyl group optionally substituted by at least one halogen atom or a C1-C4 alkoxy group optionally substituted by at least one halogen atom; and m and n each represents an integer.
US07795254B2
Selected benzomorpholine compounds, including 7-((6,7-bis(methyloxy)-4-quinolinyl)oxy)-N-(5 -methyl-3-isoxazolyl)-2,3-dihydro-4H-1,4-benzoxazine-4-carboxamide, are effective for prophylaxis and treatment of diseases, such as VEGF mediated diseases. The invention encompasses novel compounds, analogs, prodrugs and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof pharmaceutical compositions and methods for prophylaxis and treatment of diseases and other maladies or conditions involving, cancer and the like. The subject invention also relates to processes for making such compounds as well as to intermediates useful in such processes.
US07795253B2
The application relates to novel heterocyclic compounds of the general formula (I) and salts, preferably pharmaceutically acceptable salts, thereof, in which R, R1, R2, R3, Q, m and n have the meanings explained in detail in the description, and * designates an asymmetric carbon atom, a process for their preparation and the use of these compounds as medicaments, in particular as aromatase inhibitors.
US07795243B2
Orally bioavailable prodrugs of sulopenem, e.g., and solvates and hydrates thereof, preparation thereof, formulation thereof, and use to treat and prevent infection in mammals such as humans. This abstract is not limiting to the invention.
US07795237B2
The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition comprising a solid suspension prepared by hot melt extrusion of isobutyric acid (2R,3S,4R,5R)-5-(4-amino-2-oxo-2H-pyrimidin-1-yl)-2-azido-3,4-bis-iso-butyryloxy-tetrahydro-furan-2-ylmethyl ester; hydrochloride salt (I) and a polyethylene glycol (PEG)/polypropylene glycol (PPG) block copolymer.
US07795232B1
The present invention is directed to the use of bcl-2 antisense oligomers to treat and prevent bcl-2 related disorders. These disorders include cancers, tumors, carcinomas and cell-proliferative related disorders. In one embodiment of the invention, a bcl-2 antisense oligomer is administered at high doses. The present invention is also directed to a method of preventing or treating a bcl-2 related disorder, in particular cancer, comprising administering a bcl-2 antisense oligomer for short periods of time. The present invention is further drawn to the use of bcl-2 antisense oligomers to increase the sensitivity of a subject to cancer therapeutics. The present invention also relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising one or more bcl-2 antisense oligomers, which may comprise one or more cancer therapeutic agents.
US07795231B2
The present invention relates to formulations of concentrated azalide antibiotics and methods for making and using them. Specifically, the invention relates to a method of treating an infection comprising administering to a patient in need thereof, an effective amount of a concentrated aqueous azalide antibiotic formulation made according to the method comprising dissolving an azalide antibiotic in an aqueous solution comprising a strong acid. The invention also relates to methods for making concentrated aqueous azalide antibiotic formulations for use in pulmonary infection, a nasopharyngeal infection, an otic infection, an ocular infection, a dermal or a vaginal infection. The invention also relates to concentrated aqueous azalide antibiotic formulations made by dissolving an azalide antibiotic in an aqueous solution comprising a strong acid.
US07795223B2
This invention relates to methods of treatment of inflammatory airway disease, and in particular to methods of treatment of asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. The invention is applicable to both allergic (atopic) and non-allergic (intrinsic) asthma. In one form the method comprises the step of administering an effective amount of a compound which has the ability to inhibit one or more functions of the T cell receptor (TCR) to a subject in need of such treatment, which is preferably a peptide whose sequence is derived from an invariant region of (a) the TCRα transmembrane domain; (b) the TCRβ transmembrane domain; (c) the TCRα intracellular domain; or (d) the CD3-γ, -δ, -ε, η or ξ chain.
US07795220B2
The present invention relates to conformationally constrained parathyroid hormone (PTH) analogs and derivatives of those analogs. The invention also provides methods of preparing and using the PTH analogs. Further, the invention encompasses compositions and methods for use in limiting undesired bone loss in a vertebrate at risk of such bone loss, in treating conditions that are characterized by undesired bone loss or by the need for bone growth, e.g. in treating fractures or cartilage disorders and for raising camp levels in cells where deemed necessary.
US07795210B2
The invention includes methods and compositions for remodeling a peptide molecule, including the addition or deletion of one or more glycosyl groups to a peptide, and/or the addition of a modifying group to a peptide.
US07795209B2
Disclosed herein are methods and compositions for treatment of conditions requiring inhibition of angiogenesis. Such conditions include those characterized by neovascularization, such as retinopathies, macular degeneration and various malignancies.
US07795208B2
A method of enhancing progenitor cell differentiation, including enhancing myogenesis, neurogenesis, and hematopoiesis, by contacting a progenitor cell with an effective amount of a deacetylase inhibitor (DI). The progenitor cell can be part of cell culture, such as a cell culture used for in vitro or in vivo analysis of progenitor cell differentiation, or can be part of an organism, such as a human or other mammal. Contacting the progenitor cell with a DI can lead to enhancement of expression of terminal cell-type specific genes in the progenitor cell, such as enhancing expression of muscle-specific genes in myoblasts. Administering a DI to a subject also can provide some prophylactic or therapeutic effect for inhibiting, preventing, or treating associated with a degeneration or loss of tissue. The DI can be administered to a subject as part of a pharmaceutical composition.
US07795196B2
A hand-washing method using an antimicrobial liquid hand soap which includes: (a) water; (b) a primary hand soap composition; (c) a biocide; and (d) a glutinous surfactant having a relative contact angle value with water of at least about +10° with respect to the primary hand soap composition. The glutinous surfactant is present in an amount effective to alter the tactile properties of the primary soap composition to promote longer and more thorough hand washing by eliciting a response to the soap's feel on the skin.
US07795173B2
The present disclosure relates to nanocrystalline titanium dioxide (TiO2) photocatalysts having nanocrystallites of less than 14 nanometers in diameter, which are substantially defect-free. The TiO2 photocatalysts form porous particles having a very large mass transfer surface area, large cylindrical pores, and low mass transfer resistance. The nanocrystalline TiO2 photocatalysts provide at least 75% of the photocatalytic activity of commercially-available TiO2 crystals having diameters greater than 20 nm. The nanocrystalline TiO2 photocatalysts may be doped with a metal, metal oxide, or non-metal dopant. A process for preparing the nanocrystalline TiO2 photocatalysts is disclosed. The present disclosure also provides methods for using nanocrystalline TiO2 photocatalysts to remove contaminants.
US07795169B2
The invention relates to a method for the manufacture of cyanopyridines from methylpyridines by their conversion with ammonia and oxygen and catalysts suitable therefor which contain further transition metals in addition to vanadium and phosphorus.
US07795167B2
Cyclopentadienyl complexes of group 6 having at least one cyclopentadienyl system which is substituted by at least one silyl group which bears at least one halogen substituent and a catalyst system comprising at least one of the cyclopentadienyl complexes, and also a process for preparing them, the use of the catalyst system for the polymerization or copolymerization of olefins and a process for preparing polyolefins by polymerization or copolymerization of olefins in the presence of the catalyst system.
US07795165B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a lead-free bismuth glass wherein decrease of the degree of accuracy of the patterning is prevented. Specifically, the present invention provides a lead-free bismuth glass characterized in that said lead-free bismuth glass is used for an optical patterning glass material which is patterned by light irradiation and the optical-absorption coefficient to light with a wavelength of 365 nm is 300 to 3000 cm−1.
US07795155B2
An indium cap layer is formed by blanket depositing indium onto a surface of metallic interconnects separated by interlayer dielectric, and then selectively chemically etching the indium located on the interlayer dielectric leaving an indium cap layer. Etchants containing a strong acid are provided for selectively removing the indium.
US07795146B2
An etching technique for the fabrication of thin (Al, In, Ga)N layers. A suitable template or substrate is selected and implanted with foreign ions over a desired area to create ion implanted material. A regrowth of a device structure is then performed on the implanted template or substrate. The top growth surface of the template is bonded to a carrier wafer to created a bonded template/carrier wafer structure. The substrate is removed, as is any residual material, to expose the ion implanted material. The ion implanted material on the bonded template/carrier wafer structure is then exposed to a suitable etchant for a sufficient time to remove the ion implanted material.
US07795144B2
A method for forming an electrode structure in a light emitting device is disclosed. The method includes the steps of: forming a mask material layer having an opening; depositing a first material layer on the mask material layer and on a portion of a compound semiconductor layer exposed through the bottom of the opening by a physical vapor deposition method reducing the particle density so that the mean free path for collision is long; depositing a second material layer on the first material layer on the mask material layer, on the first material layer deposited on the bottom of the opening, and on a portion of the compound semiconductor layer exposed through the bottom of the opening by a vapor deposition method other than the physical vapor deposition method; and removing the mask material layer and the first and second material layers deposited on the mask material layer.
US07795141B2
(a1) A concave portion is formed in an interlayer insulating film formed on a semiconductor substrate. (a2) A first film of Mn is formed by CVD, the first film covering the inner surface of the concave portion and the upper surface of the insulating film. (a3) Conductive material essentially consisting of Cu is deposited on the first film to embed the conductive material in the concave portion. (a4) The semiconductor substrate is annealed. During the period until a barrier layer is formed having also a function of improving tight adhesion, it is possible to ensure sufficient tight adhesion of wiring members and prevent peel-off of the wiring members.
US07795139B2
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor package includes forming a groove in the portion outside of the bonding pad of a semiconductor chip provided with the bonding pad on an upper surface thereof; forming an insulation layer on the side wall of the groove; forming a metal layer over the semiconductor chip so as to fill the groove formed with the insulation layer; etching the metal layer to simultaneously form a through silicon via for filling the groove and a distribution layer for connecting the through silicon via and the bonding pad; and removing a rear surface of the semiconductor chip such that the lower surface of the through silicon via protrudes from the semiconductor chip.
US07795137B2
When a tungsten film (43) is embedded inside of a conductive groove (4A) formed in a wafer (W2) and a silicon oxide film (36) thereon and having a high aspect ratio, film formation and etch back of the tungsten film (43) are successively performed in a chamber of the same apparatus, therefore, a film thickness of the tungsten film (43) deposited in one film formation step is made to be thin. Whereby problems, such as exfoliation of the tungsten film (43), generation of micro-cracks, and occurrence of warpage and cracks of the wafer (W2), are avoided.
US07795135B2
The invention relates to a method for producing a layer arrangement. An electrically conductive layer is formed and patterned. A sacrificial layer formed on at least part of the patterned electrically conductive layer. An electrically insulating layer is formed on the electrically conductive and sacrificial layers and is patterned in such a manner that one or more surface areas of the sacrificial layer are exposed. The exposed areas of the sacrificial layer are removed to expose one or more surface areas of the patterned electrically conductive layer. The patterned electrically conductive layer is covered with a pattern of electrically conductive material.
US07795134B2
Conductive interconnect structures and formation methods using supercritical fluids are disclosed. A method in accordance with one embodiment of the invention includes forming a via in a substrate, with the via having a width and a length generally transverse to the width, and with a length being approximately 100 microns or more. The method can further include disposing a conductive material in the via while the via is exposed to a supercritical fluid. For example, copper can be disposed in the via by introducing a copper-containing precursor into the supercritical fluid and precipitating the copper from the supercritical fluid. Interconnect structures can be formed using this technique in a single generally continuous process, and can produce conductive structures having a generally uniform grain structure across the width of the via.
US07795133B2
By covering inner surfaces of a wiring groove 26c and a via hole 27a with a fourth insulation film 25 containing porogen during a manufacturing process of a semiconductor device, an increase in the relative permittivity of the fourth insulation film 25 that is a low-permittivity film on the inner surfaces of the wiring groove 26c and the via hole 27a can be suppressed in a manufacturing process of a semiconductor device such as a barrier metal sputtering process.
US07795127B2
There are provided the steps of forming a bump 104 having a protruded portion 104B on an electrode pad 103 formed on a substrate 101A, forming an insulating layer 105 on the substrate 101A and exposing a part of the protruded portion 104B to an upper surface of the insulating layer 105, forming a first conductive pattern 107 by using a depositing process in the upper surface of the insulating layer 105 and an exposed part of the protruded portion 104B, carrying out electrolytic plating by using the first conductive pattern 107 as a feeding layer, thereby forming a second conductive pattern 108, and patterning the second conductive pattern 108 to form a conductive pattern 106 connected to the bump 104.
US07795125B2
The present invention relates to a system and process for producing a nanowire-material composite. A substrate having nanowires attached to a portion of at least one surface is provided. A material is deposited over the portion to form the nanowire-material composite. The process further optionally includes separating the nanowire-material composite from the substrate to form a freestanding nanowire-material composite. The freestanding nanowire material composite is optionally further processed into a electronic substrate. A variety of electronic substrates can be produced using the methods described herein. For example, a multi-color light-emitting diode can be produced from multiple, stacked layers of nanowire-material composites, each composite layer emitting light at a different wavelength.
US07795124B2
Methods for reducing contact resistance in semiconductor devices are provided in the present invention. In one embodiment, the method includes providing a substrate having semiconductor device formed thereon, wherein the device has source and drain regions and a gate structure formed therein, performing a silicidation process on the substrate by a thermal annealing process, and performing a laser anneal process on the substrate. In another embodiment, the method includes providing a substrate having implanted dopants, performing a silicidation process on the substrate by a thermal annealing process, and activating the dopants by a laser anneal process.
US07795116B2
A wafer-cutting process includes first cutting a semiconductive wafer along a first path at a given first cutting intensity including cutting across an intersection. The process also includes second cutting the semiconductive wafer along a second path at a given second cutting intensity. The second cutting intensity is diminished during crossing the intersection and resumed to the given cutting intensity after crossing the intersection.
US07795113B2
A method is disclosed for bonding two elements by means of a bonding agent such as a glue layer, wherein the bonding agent is removable, and wherein between the bonding agent and at least one element, a sacrificial layer is applied which is selectively removable with respect to that element. According to embodiments, the elements comprise a die or a substrate bonded to a carrier wafer. The nature and type of the die or substrate and of the carrier can vary within the scope of embodiments of the invention. Also disclosed is a composite substrate obtainable by methods of the invention.
US07795110B2
A trench isolation type semiconductor device in which a recess is prevented from being formed in a field region and a method of fabricating the same are provided. The trench isolation type semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate defined by an active region and a field region, a trench formed in the field region, an oxide layer conformally formed along the inside of the trench, a liner layer conformally formed along the oxide layer, a field insulating layer formed inside the trench including the oxide layer and the liner layer, and a field protection layer formed on the field insulating layer so that a step difference does not occur on the semiconductor substrate.
US07795092B2
A semiconductor memory device includes gate electrodes extending in a first direction above a surface of a substrate. The semiconductor memory device also includes a reinforcement insulation film formed in a line shape and extending in a second direction crossing the gate electrodes in a plane view viewed from above the surface of the substrate, and connected to adjacent gate electrodes. Further, the semiconductor memory device includes an interlayer dielectric film provided between the adjacent gate electrodes, and having a void inside.
US07795091B2
A split-gate memory device has a select gate having a first work function overlying a first portion of a substrate. A control gate having a second work function overlies a second portion of the substrate proximate the first portion. When the majority carriers of the split-gate memory device are electrons, the first work function is greater than the second work function. When the majority carriers of the split-gate memory device are holes, the first work function is less than the second work function. First and second current electrodes in the substrate are separated by a channel that underlies the control gate and select gate. The differing work functions of the control gate and the select gate result in differing threshold voltages for each gate to optimize device performance. For an N-channel device, the select gate is P conductivity and the control gate is N conductivity.
US07795083B2
The invention provides a method for forming a semiconductor structure. A plurality of first type well regions is formed in the first type substrate. A plurality of second type well regions and a plurality of second type bar doped regions are formed in the first type substrate by a doping process using a mask. The second type bar doped regions are diffused to form a second type continuous region by annealing. The second type continuous region is adjoined with the first type well regions. A second type dopant concentration of the second type continuous region is smaller than a second type dopant concentration of the second type bar doped regions. A second type source/drain region is formed in the second type well region.
US07795080B2
Methods of fabricating integrated circuit devices are provided using composite spacer formation processes. A composite spacer structure is used to pattern and etch the layer stack when forming select features of the devices. A composite storage structure includes a first spacer formed from a first layer of spacer material and second and third spacers formed from a second layer of spacer material. The process is suitable for making devices with line and space sizes at less then the minimum resolvable feature size of the photolithographic processes being used. Moreover, equal line and space sizes at less than the minimum feature size are possible. In one embodiment, an array of dual control gate non-volatile flash memory storage elements is formed using composite spacer structures. When forming the active areas of the substrate, with overlying strips of a layer stack and isolation regions therebetween, a composite spacer structure facilitates equal lengths of the strips and isolation regions therebetween.
US07795077B2
A memory card and method for fabricating the same are disclosed, which includes mounting and electrically connecting at least a chip to a circuit board unit having a predefined shape of a memory card; attaching a thin film to the surface of the circuit board unit opposed to the surface with the chip mounted thereon; covering the circuit board unit and the thin film by a mold so as to form a mold cavity having same shape as the circuit board unit but bigger size; filling a packaging material in the mold cavity so as to form an encapsulant encapsulating the chip and outer sides of the circuit board unit, thus integrally forming a memory card having the predefined shape. The present invention eliminates the need to perform a shape cutting process by using water jet or laser as in the prior art, thus reducing the fabricating cost and improving the fabricating yield.
US07795073B2
Manufacturing a wafer level stack package includes the steps of back-grinding a lower surface of a wafer including a plurality of first semiconductor chips. A support member is attached to a lower surface of the back-grinded wafer. One or more second semiconductor chips are stacked on the respective first semiconductor chips of the back-grinded wafer. First through-electrodes are formed to electrically connect the stacked first semiconductor chips and second semiconductor chips. Third semiconductor chips are attached to uppermost ones of the stacked second semiconductor chips, and the third semiconductor chips have second through-electrodes which are electrically connected to the first through-electrodes and re-distribution lines which are connected to the second through-electrodes. Outside connection terminals are attached to the re-distribution lines of the third semiconductor chips. The first semiconductor chips of a wafer level on which the second and third semiconductor chips are stacked are sawed to for semiconductor packages at a chip level.
US07795067B1
A method of manufacturing partially light transparent thin film solar cells generally includes forming a solar cell structure stack and forming multiple openings through the solar cell structure stack. The solar cell structure stack includes a flexible foil substrate, a contact layer formed over the flexible foil substrate, a Group IBIIIAVIA absorber layer formed over the contact layer and a transparent conductive layer formed over the Group IBIIIAVIA absorber layer. A terminal structure including at least one busbar and a plurality of conductive finger patterns is deposited onto a top surface of the transparent conductive layer forming a semi-transparent solar cell.
US07795064B2
The present invention provides a front-illuminated avalanche photodiode (APD) with improved intrinsic responsivity, as well as a method of fabricating such a front-illuminated APD. The front-illuminated APD comprises an APD body of semiconductor material, which includes a substrate and a layer stack disposed on a front surface of the substrate. The layer stack includes an absorption layer, a multiplication layer, and a field-control layer. Advantageously, a back surface of the APD body is mechanically and chemically polished, and a reflector having a reflectance of greater than 90% at the absorption wavelength band is disposed on the back surface of the APD body. Thus, incident light that is not absorbed in a first pass through the absorption layer is reflected by the reflector for a second pass through the absorption layer, increasing the intrinsic responsivity of the front-illuminated APD.
US07795054B2
A method of manufacturing a vertical structure light emitting diode device, the method including: sequentially forming a first conductivity type III-V group compound semiconductor layer, an active layer, and a second conductivity type III-V group compound semiconductor layer on a substrate for growth; bonding a conductive substrate to the second conductivity type III-V group compound semiconductor layer; removing the substrate for growth from the first conductivity type III-V group compound semiconductor layer; and forming an electrode on an exposed portion of the first conductive III-V group compound semiconductor layer due to the removing the substrate for growth, wherein the bonding a conductive substrate comprises partially heating a metal bonding layer by applying microwaves to a bonding interface while bringing the metal bonding layer into contact with the bonding interface.
US07795048B2
A method of measuring a film thickness is disclosed. The method includes a step of forming a ferroelectric capacitor on a substrate, a step of forming an insulating film to cover the ferroelectric capacitor, and a step of optically measuring the thickness of the insulating film on an electrode of the ferroelectric capacitor.
US07795041B2
The present invention relates to multi-polymer-coated magnetic nanoclusters, aqueous magnetic fluids comprising same, and methods of their use in separation procedures. The multi-polymer-coated magnetic nanoclusters comprise a super paramagnetic core, with a first polymer attached thereto, which does not render the first polymer-super paramagnetic particle complex colloidally stable, and a second polymer attached thereto, which stabilizes the complex of multi-polymer-coated magnetic nanoparticles. Methods of use comprise methods of separation, including separation of expressed protein from cells and viruses expressing the same.
US07795026B2
The invention is directed to novel cells that are derived from human embryoid bodies. Such embryoid body-derived (EBD) cells are relatively uncommitted or progenitor (e.g., pluripotent) cells. EBD cells, while not immortal, display long-term proliferation in culture with a normal karyotype and can be cryopreserved and cloned. They can be efficiently transfected with retroviruses and lentivirus and genetically manipulated. Although they have a developmentally broad multilineage expression profile, they do not form tumors when injected into severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) mice. As a result, EBD cells have a variety of uses, for example, in transplantation therapies.
US07795021B2
A glial precursor cell population from mammalian central nervous system has been isolated. These A2B5+ E-NCAM− glial-restricted precursor (GRP) cells are capable of differentiating into oligodendrocytes, A2B5+ process-bearing astrocytes, and A2B5− fibroblast-like astrocytes, but not into neurons. GRP cells can be maintained by regeneration in culture. GRP cells differ from oligodendrocyte-type-2 astrocyte (O-2A) progenitor cells in growth factor requirements, morphology, and progeny. Methods of use of GRP cells are also disclosed.
US07795017B2
The present invention relates to novel plasmid constructs useful for the delivery of DNA vaccines. The present invention provides novel plasmids having a transcription cassette capable of directing the expression of a vaccine nucleic acid insert encoding immunogens derived from any pathogen, including fungi, bacteria and viruses. The present invention, however, is particularly useful for inducing in a patient an immune response against pathogenic viruses such as HIV, measles or influenza. Immunodeficiency virus vaccine inserts of the present invention express non-infectious HIV virus-like particles (VLP) bearing multiple viral epitopes. VLPs allow presentation of the epitopes to multiple histocompatability types, thereby reducing the possibility of the targeted virus escaping the immune response. Also described are methods for immunizing a patient by delivery of a novel plasmid of the present invention to the patient for expression of the vaccine insert therein. Optionally, the immunization protocol may include a booster vaccination that may be a live vector vaccine such as a recombinant pox virus or modified vaccinia Arbora vector. The booster live vaccine vector includes a transcription cassette expressing the same vaccine insert as the primary immunizing vector.
US07795013B2
A holder for a microtitreplate or an array of separate test tubes comprising a first panel (1) provided with a recess (2) for receiving each well (3) of the microtitreplate or test tubes and a second panel (7), which together with the first panel (1) and three side walls (5) form an inner space (8). The fourth side (9) comprises an inlet (10) for gas or liquid, whereby the gas or liquid entering the inner space (8) via the inlet (10) leaves the inner space (8) via said recesses (2), along the outside of the wells (3). A method for cooling or heating samples contained in wells (3) of a microtitreplate or an array of separate test tubes by inserting the microtitreplate or array of separate test tubes into such a holder and letting gas or liquid enter said inner space (8).
US07795007B2
A method for differentiating between a post-translationally modified peptide and a peptide contained in a sample, comprising: (a) contacting the sample with a peptide attachment surface to create a peptidized surface, wherein the sample includes at least one functional group; (b) contacting the peptidized surface with a recognition reagent that selectively binds or forms a complex with the post-translationally modified peptide in the sample to provide an incubated surface; and (c) contacting a liquid crystal with the incubated surface and detecting presence of post-translationally modified peptide in the sample with the liquid crystal.
US07795005B2
A micro array instrument is used in which an oligonucleotide based on a species- or genus-specific nucleotide sequence of subject bacteria is immobilized on a surface of a substrate. By confirming whether the oligonucleotide immobilized on the substrate has hybridized with a probe prepared from a test sample, bacteria contained in the test sample can be detected and identified easily, quickly, and accurately.
US07794982B2
This invention relates to a method for searching for a genetic polymorphism for identifying a gene whose expression level is different between alleles and to a method for searching for a phenotype-associated genetic polymorphism. More particularly, the invention relates to a method for effectively identifying a gene whose expression level is different between alleles by utilizing a genetic polymorphism present in intranuclear RNA.
US07794977B2
The invention relates to means and methods for regulating gene expression and production of proteinaceous molecules. The invention provides a method for producing a proteinaceous molecule in a cell comprising selecting a cell for its suitability for producing the proteinaceous molecule, providing a nucleic acid encoding the proteinaceous molecule with a nucleic acid comprising a STAR (STabilizing Anti-Repression) sequence, expressing the resulting nucleic acid in the cell and collecting the proteinaceous molecule. Providing at least one STAR sequence to a nucleic acid encoding a proteinaceous molecule will enhance production (yield) of the proteinaceous molecule by a host cell, increase the proportion of host cells with acceptable expression levels, and/or increase stability of a gene expression level.
US07794974B2
The present invention relates to functional cDNA and genomic sequences encoding PrtT proteins, which have transcriptional activity on a protease promoter, to PrtT proteins and to their use. The invention further relates to two distinct types of filamentous fungal cells. Filamentous fungal cells are transformed to over-express these PrtT proteins: this type of filamentous fungus will be highly suited as protease producer. Alternatively, the endogenous prtT genes of filamentous fungal cells are inactivated: this type of filamentous fungus is highly suited for the production of any polypeptide native or not which is highly sensitive for protease degradation. The PrtT proteins of the invention provide means for identification of functional homologues in other species.
US07794967B2
The present invention relates to a method for detection of novel pathogen inhibitors using models of pathogen specific, and metal binding structures/domains representing essential cellular molecules. The method enables identification of inhibitors that bind to any specific RNA molecule or protein that are essential for cell growth, proliferation and differentiation. The invention also relates to a kit for use in the method. Furthermore, the invention relates to use of aminoglycosides in the development of new drugs.
US07794966B2
The present invention aims to enable highly reliable measurement of a glycated amine. A fructosyl amino acid oxidase (FAOD) is added to a sample to remove a non-analyte glycated amine that is present in the sample and different from an analyte glycated amine. Thereafter, a protease is added to the sample to degrade the analyte glycated amine, and the degradation product of the analyte glycated amine reacts with the FAOD that has already been added to the sample. By measuring this redox reaction, the amount of the analyte glycated amine can be measured.
US07794963B2
A process of in vivo labeling and identifying recombinantly produced peptides or proteins within an unpermeabilized prokaryotic host cell. Recombinant prokaryotic cells expressing a fusion peptide comprising at least one tetracysteine tag were labeled in vivo using a biarsenical labeling reagent. A fluorescent activated cell sorter was used to identify and select subpopulations of fluorescent cells wherein the amount of fusion peptide in the cell was proportional to the amount of fluorescence detected.
US07794962B2
The invention provides a method for the expression of exogenous DNA libraries in filamentous fungi. The fungi are capable of processing intron-containing eukaryotic genes, and also can carry out post-translational processing steps such as glyclosylation and protein folding. The invention provides for the use of fungi with altered morphology, which permits high-throughput screening and directed molecular evolution of expressed proteins. The same transformed fungi may be used to produce larger quantities of protein for isolation, characterization, and application testing, and may be suitable for commercial production of the protein as well.
US07794960B2
The use of various biomarkers to assess a subject's suitability for treatment with a EGFR/ErbB2 kinase inhibitor for a solid tumor are described. The biomarkers include TGFalpha, pS6, IGF-1R and levels of apoptosis occurring in tumor tissue.
US07794957B2
The present invention relates to regulation of adult lifespan in eukaryotes. More particularly, the present invention is directed to methods of assaying for activators of the heat shock factor 1 (HSF-1) protein, which increases lifespan when overexpressed in an organism.
US07794956B2
The invention is directed to the regulation of glucose homeostasis by modulating the activity of Grb2-associated binder 1 (Gab1) in hepatocytes. This invention also provides for a method for identifying compounds capable of modulating the glucose homeostasis regulatory activity of Gab1. In one aspect, the invention provides a method for identifying a compound that can effectively modulate glucose homeostasis wherein Gabl mediated MapK activity indicates that the candidate compound is an effective compound that modulates glucose homeostasis. In another aspect, the invention provides a method for identifying a compound that can effectively modulate the glucose homeostasis regulating activity of Gabl wherein MAPK is activated to phosphorylate Serine residue 612 of IRS-1, indicating that the candidate compound is an effective compound that modulates glucose homeostasis. In another aspect of the invention is provided a method for diagnosing Gab1 related disorders.
US07794953B2
The present invention relates to detection of the presence or absence of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) in a sample, in particular to the analysis of the CSF protein lipocalin-type prostaglandin D2 synthase (L-PGDS). The present invention provides assays for the analysis of PGDS indicating the presence or absence of CSF in a sample.
US07794950B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a novel method for detecting irradiation treatment of foods. The present invention provides a method for detecting irradiation treatment of foods comprising the steps of (A) obtaining a fraction containing one or more irradiation-generated fragments of natural high-molecular weight compound(s) from a food sample, and (B) reacting the fraction with one or more antibodies capable of recognizing the one or more fragments, thereby detecting the one or more fragments. The invention also provides a kit for detecting irradiation treatment of foods.
US07794937B2
The present invention provides novel mutations of the CFTR gene related to cystic fibrosis or to conditions associated with cystic fibrosis. Also provided are probes for detecting the mutant sequences. Methods of identifying if an individual has a genotype containing one or more mutations in the CFTR gene are further provided.
US07794933B1
The invention relate to the discovery of a depression associated AKAP9 predisposing variant. The invention provides for detecting the variant. The invention also provides methods for screening for antidepressants based on modulating AKAP9 mediated signaling.
US07794930B2
The Snail transcription factor has been identified as a repressor of the expression of E-cadherin. The expression of Snail induces invasive and metastatic capacity in tumour cells. This invention presents: a new target protein, Snail, for the identification of new antitumoral compounds and a new diagnostic tumour marker, indicative of tissue invasion and metastatic capacity.
US07794922B2
A pattern forming method includes forming a photo resist film on a film to be processed, forming a protective film for protecting the photo resist film from an immersion liquid on the photo resist film by coating method, performing immersion exposure selectively to a region of part of the photo resist film via the immersion liquid, the immersion liquid being supplied onto the photo resist film, removing a residual substance including an affinitive part for the immersion liquid from the protective film after the forming the protective film and before the performing immersion exposure selectively to the region of part of the photo resist film, removing the protective film, and forming a pattern comprising the photo resist film by selectively removing an exposed region or a non-exposed region of the photo resist film.
US07794918B2
The invention provides an ink composition having at least (A) a polymerization initiator, (B) an ester or amide of (meth)acrylic acid having a 1,3-dioxolane ring skeleton or a 1,3-dioxane ring skeleton or (B′) an ester or amide of (meth)acrylic acid having a 1,3-diketone structure, and (C) a colorant. The invention further provides an inkjet recording method and a method for producing a planographic printing plate, each of which includes at least (I) ejecting the ink composition onto a hydrophilic support and (II) curing the ink composition by irradiating the ejected ink composition with active radiation so as to form a hydrophobic image region on the hydrophilic support. The invention furthermore provides a planographic printing plate formed by the method for producing a planographic printing plate.
US07794904B2
Exemplary embodiments provide optical systems and methods for producing interferometric lithography (IL) patterns with circular symmetry for applications such as memory devices including CD ROMs, DVDs, magnetic hard disk storage, and the like. Specifically, one or more axicon optics can be configured in the optical systems for IL patterning processes to form a uniform set of rings with constant increment in all directions in a developed photoresist. In an exemplary embodiment, the optical system can transform a first portion of a plane wave into a radial symmetric wave with a constant angle of incidence onto a photoresist plane of a wafer. This radial symmetric wave can then interfere with a second portion of the plane wave incident but with a different angle of incidence to produce a periodic spatially-varying intensity pattern with circular symmetry.
US07794903B2
Metrology systems and methods for lithography processes are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes providing a mask having a plurality of corner rounding test patterns formed thereon. A first semiconductor device is provided, and a layer of photosensitive material of the first semiconductor device is patterned with a plurality of corner rounding test features using the mask and a lithography process. An amount of corner rounding of the lithography process is measured by analyzing the plurality of corner rounding test features relative to other of the plurality of corner rounding test features formed on the layer of photosensitive material of the semiconductor device. The lithography process or the mask is altered in response to the amount of corner rounding measured, and a second semiconductor device is provided. The second semiconductor device is affected using the altered lithography process or the altered mask.
US07794899B2
A photo mask formed with patterns to be transferred to a substrate using an exposure apparatus, the photo mask comprising a pattern row having three or more hole patterns surrounded by a shielding portion or a semitransparent film and arranged along one direction, and an assist pattern surrounded by the shielding portion or semitransparent film and having a longitudinal direction and a latitudinal direction, the assist pattern being located at a specified distance from the pattern row in a direction orthogonal to the one direction, the longitudinal direction of the assist pattern being substantially parallel with the one direction, the longitudinal length of the assist pattern being equivalent to or larger than the longitudinal length of the pattern row, the assist pattern being not transferred to the substrate.
US07794897B2
A pattern correcting method for correcting a design pattern to form a desired pattern on a wafer is disclosed, which comprises defining an allowable dimensional change quantity of each of design patterns, defining a pattern correction condition for the each design pattern based on the allowable dimensional change quantity defined for the each design pattern, and correcting the each design pattern based on the pattern correction condition defined for the each design pattern.
US07794896B2
A method of making a holographic data storage medium is provided. The method comprises: (a) providing an optically transparent substrate comprising at least one photochemically active dye; and (b) irradiating the optically transparent substrate at least one wavelength at which the optically transparent substrate has an absorbance in a range from about 0.1 to 1, to produce a modified optically transparent substrate comprising at least one optically readable datum and at least one photo-product of the photochemically active dye. The at least one wavelength is in a range from about 300 nanometers to about 800 nanometers. The optically transparent substrate is at least 100 micrometers thick, and comprises the photochemically active dye in an amount corresponding to from about 0.1 to about 10 weight percent based on a total weight of the optically transparent substrate.
US07794894B2
Multi-layer seals are provided that find advantageous use for reducing leakage of gases between adjacent components of electrochemical devices. Multi-layer seals of the invention include a gasket body defining first and second opposing surfaces and a compliant interlayer positioned adjacent each of the first and second surfaces. Also provided are methods for making and using the multi-layer seals, and electrochemical devices including said seals.
US07794892B2
A MEA-frame assembly is arranged in a mold for injection molding to form a first flow passage arranged so as to extend along the outer periphery of an electrode between the outer periphery of the electrode and the inner periphery of a frame, a second flow passage arranged so as to extend along an inner elastic member between the inner periphery and outer periphery of the frame and a plurality of connecting flow passages which communicate the first flow passage with the second flow passage. An elastic resin is injected into the first flow passage to fill the first flow passage with the elastic resin and to fill the second flow passage with the elastic resin through each of the communicating flow passages, thereby an elastic member which hermetically seals the space between the MEA-frame assembly and the separator is integrally formed.
US07794885B2
The present invention provides a lithium secondary battery which is improved in cycle characteristics and storage stability at an elevated temperature as well as protection from overcharge. In the battery, generation of a gas is also inhibited to prevent the battery from expansion. A non-aqueous electrolytic solution for the lithium secondary battery has an electrolyte in a non-aqueous solvent. The non-aqueous solvent is composed of a cyclic carbonate compound, a linear carbonate compound and a cyclohexylbenzene compound having a benzene ring to which one or two halogen atoms are attached. A volume ratio of the cyclic carbonate compound and the linear carbonate compound in the non-aqueous solvent is in the range of 20:80 to 40:60, or the non-aqueous solvent further contains a small amount of a branched alkylbenzene compound.
US07794879B2
A positive electrode active material for a non-aqueous electrode secondary cell which comprises a composite oxide containing iron and sodium as main components, having a hexagonal crystal structure, and exhibiting a value obtained by dividing the intensity of a peak corresponding to an interplanar spacing of 2.20 Å by the intensity of a peak corresponding to an interplanar spacing of 5.36 Å of 2 or less in the X-ray diffraction analysis of said composite oxide; and a method for preparing the positive electrode active material wherein the above composite oxide is prepared by heating a metal compound mixture mainly containing a sodium compound and an iron compound in the temperature range of 400 to 900° C., which comprises heating the metal compound mixture in an inert atmosphere in the temperature range of less than 100° C. on the way of the rise in the temperature. The use of the above active material allows the manufacture of a cell which is free from the rapid reduction of the discharge voltage with the progress of discharge.
US07794876B2
To provide a novel pentafluorophenyloxy compound, a method for producing same, a nonaqueous electrolyte solution capable of forming a lithium secondary battery having excellent battery characteristics such as electrical capacity, cycling property and storage property, and a lithium secondary battery.A pentafluorophenyloxy compound represented by the general formula (I) shown below, a method for producing same, a nonaqueous electrolyte solution containing same and a lithium secondary battery: wherein R1 represents a —COCO— group, a S═O group or a S(═O)2 group, R2 represents an alkyl group, a cycloalkyl group, an alkenyl group, an alkynyl group, an aryl group or an aralkyl group with the proviso that at least one of the hydrogen atoms of R2 may be each substituted with a halogen atom and that R2 does not represent an aryl group when R1 represents a —COCO— group.
US07794875B2
Disclosed herein is a battery module including two battery cells, each of which has electrode terminals formed at upper and lower ends thereof. The battery module further includes a frame member, to which upper-end sealing parts, lower-end sealing parts, and one-side sealing parts of the battery cells are mounted, a metal sheathing member for covering the outer surfaces of the battery cells while the battery cells are mounted to the frame member, and caps (an upper-end cap and a lower-end cap) mounted to the upper and lower ends of the battery cells, respectively, which are covered by the metal sheathing member. According to the present invention, it is possible to minimize the weight and the size of the battery module while increasing the strength of the battery cells. Also, it is possible to easily mount the detecting means that detects the operation of the battery cells, and it is possible to effectively prevent the occurrence of short circuits during the assembly or the operation of the battery module. Furthermore, it is possible to easily perform the electric connection between the battery modules when manufacturing the medium- or large-sized battery module using the respective battery modules as unit bodies.
US07794873B2
A battery of the present invention has a strip-shaped electrode group. The electrode group includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and a separator interposed therebetween. The first electrode has a strip-shaped first current collector and a first active material layer carried on one surface thereof. The first active material layer faces the separator. The second electrode has a strip-shaped second current collector and a second active material layer carried on one surface thereof. The second active material layer faces the separator. The electrode group is folded in a zigzag pattern to form a laminate having a plurality of flat portions, at least one first bent portion located on a first end side of the plurality of flat portions in which the first current collector is located on the outermost side, and at least one second bent portion located on a second end side that is opposite to the first end side in which the second current collector is located on the outermost side. The laminate has a first terminal connected to the at least one first bent portion and a second terminal connected to the at least one second bent portion.
US07794872B2
A secondary battery includes an electrode assembly having a separator interposed between a positive plate and a negative plate. Each of the positive and negative plates has a portion that is not coated with active material. The uncoated regions of the positive and negative plates are respectively fixed to positive and negative collector plates by welding. A plurality of first weld lines are formed on the positive collector plate at predetermined angles from one another. A plurality of second weld lines are formed on the negative collector plate also at predetermined angles from one another. The plurality of first weld lines and the plurality of second weld lines are offset from one another.
US07794871B2
A secondary battery includes an electrode assembly with a positive electrode, a negative electrode and a separator, and a case mounting the electrode assembly therein. The case has a plurality of channels adapted to form flow paths with channels of a neighboring secondary battery.
US07794863B2
A fuel cell includes a separator (10B) interposed between adjacent unit cells (10A). A mixed fluid of air and water is supplied to an air electrode (12) of each unit cell. The separator includes a mesh conductor (14) on at least a surface facing the air electrode of the unit cells, and the mixed fluid passes through the mesh conductor. Water is retained on the mesh portion of the conductor. With this configuration, it is possible for the unit cell to be cooled by the release of latent heat when the water is evaporated by the heat of unit cell, without any clogging which inhibits contact between the electrode and the air.
US07794862B2
The method for generating a hydrogen-rich stream from hydrocarbon fuels, ultimately to produce hydrogen gas, involves the following two steps performed in a cyclic fashion: (1) pyrolysis of the hydrocarbon fuel to obtain a carbon-rich fraction and a hydrogen-rich fraction; and (2) oxidation of the carbon-rich fraction, or a portion of it, for heat generation. The method involves the following optional steps: (3) steam gasification of part of the carbon-rich fraction to produce additional amounts of hydrogen and carbon monoxide; (4) water-gas shift reaction to convert carbon monoxide to carbon dioxide with the simultaneous formation of additional amounts of hydrogen; and (5) steam reforming of light hydrocarbons that may be produced in step (1) to produce more hydrogen and carbon monoxide.
US07794854B2
Provided is a novel corannulene compound. The corannulene compound is represented by the following general formula (1): where X represents a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group, a substituted or unsubstituted heterocyclic group, a substituted or unsubstituted amino group, or a substituted or unsubstituted cyano group, n represents an integer of 1 to 10, and when a number of X is two or more, X may be identical to or different from each other, or may bind to each other to form a ring.
US07794853B2
Porous titanium having a low contact resistance includes porous titanium body, Au, and Ti oxide layer (3). Porous titanium includes continuous holes (1) opening on a surface and being connected to inner holes and a skeleton (2). Au adheres to at least an outer skeletal surface (4) of the porous titanium via diffusion bonding to form a network structure. The Ti oxide layer (3) is formed in a clearance between adjacent Au cords (5) of the Au network sticking. The width of an Au cord (5) of the Au network is 0.3 to 10 μm at least at one position; and the thickness of the Ti oxide layer (3), which is formed in the clearance between adjacent Au cords (5) of the Au network is 30 to 150 nm.
US07794850B2
A method for increasing the long term storageability of a cellulosic paper or paperboard product. The method includes providing a paper or paperboard product made from cellulosic fibers having a basis weight ranging from about 80 to about 300 pounds per 3000 square feet. A holdout material is applied to at least one surface of the paper or paperboard product. The web is then coated with an ink receptive material selected from the group consisting of an aqueous acrylic polymer coating material, an aqueous biocidal agent and a combination of aqueous acrylic polymer coating material and aqueous biocidal agent and dried to provide a paper or paperboard product having enhanced long term storageability. Webs made according to the invention are suitable for making file folders which exhibit improve long term storageability by resisting damage from moisture and/or biological activity.
US07794845B2
Multilayer polypropylene films comprising a base layer A, at least one skin layer B adhered to said base layer A and a metal layer M deposited on the surface of said skin layer, wherein said skin layer B comprises a propylene copolymer containing from 3% to 6% by weight of C4-C10 alpha-olefin units, said propylene copolymer having a xylene soluble fraction at 23° C. of less than 4.0 wt %, a VICAT softening temperature higher than 135° C. and an indentation value according to the VICAT test method lower than or equal to 0.05 mm at 120° C.
US07794840B2
This invention relates generally to capacitors comprising organized assemblies of carbon and non-carbon compounds. This invention further relates to methods of making such organized structures. It also relates to devices containing such structures. In preferred embodiments, the organized structures of the instant invention take the form of nanorods or their aggregate forms. More preferably, a nanorod is made up of a carbon nanotube filled, coated, or both filled and coated by a non-carbon material. In particular, the present invention is directed to a capacitor electrode comprising a carbon nanotube filled with one or more non-carbon materials comprising titanium, a titanium compound, manganese, a manganese compound, cobalt, nickel, palladium, platinum, bromine, iodine, an interhalogen compound, or the combination thereof.
US07794835B2
A fixing solution for fixing toner to a recording medium, includes aliphatic ester held by solvent in a soluble manner, and having solubility or swelling property with respect to resin included in the toner.
US07794830B2
The present invention relates to a cutting tool insert for turning consisting of a cemented carbide substrate and a coating. The cemented carbide substrate comprises WC, binder phase, and vanadium containing cubic carbide phase with a binder phase enriched surface zone essentially free of cubic carbide phase. The thermal properties of the vanadium-containing cubic phase, has turned out to give excellent resistance to thermal cracking of the insert.
US07794827B2
A self-supporting energy absorbing composite includes: i) a solid foamed synthetic polymer matrix; ii) a polymer-based dilatant, different from i) distributed through the matrix and incorporated therein during manufacture of i); and iii) a fluid distributed through the matrix. In another embodiment, a self-supporting energy absorbing composite includes: iv) a solid, closed cell foam matrix; v) a polymer-based dilatant, different from i), distributed through the matrix; and vi) a fluid distributed through the matrix. In both embodiments, the combination of matrix, dilatant and fluid is such that the composite is resiliently compressible.
US07794826B2
A carbon-fiber-reinforced SiC composite having a high tensile strength is produced by impregnating a carbon-fiber-reinforced carbon composite with melted metal Si. The carbon-fiber-reinforced carbon composite includes carbon fibers that are pitch-based short carbon fibers. The pitch-based short carbon fibers are oriented in two-dimensional random directions. The carbon-fiber-reinforced carbon composite has a bulk density of 1.2 to 1.7 g/cm3, a porosity of 15 to 40 vol %, and a carbon fiber volume content of 20 to 50 vol %.
US07794821B2
A composite material consists of a plurality of cores dispersed in a matrix. The cores are formed of ultra-hard material, or the components for making an ultra-hard material. The matrix is formed of the components for making an ultra-hard material of a grade different to that of the cores, and a suitable binder. The ultra-hard material is polycrystalline in nature and is typically PCD or PcBN. The cores are typically provided as granules coated with the components for making an ultra-hard material and the binder. The composite material typically takes on a honeycomb structure of an ultra-hard material and cores within the pores of the honeycomb structure bonded to the honeycomb structure. The pores of the honeycomb structure may be ordered or random.
US07794806B2
A subject matter of the invention is a coextrusion tie, which comprises: 5 to 35% by weight of a polymer (A) itself composed of a blend of 80 to 20% by weight of a metallocene polyethylene (A1) with a density of between 0.863 and 0.915 and of 20 to 80% by weight of a non-metallocene LLDPE polyethylene (A2) with a density of between 0.900 and 0.950, the blend of polymers (A1) and (A2) being cografted; 95 to 65% by weight of metallocene polyethylene (B) homo- or copolymer, the comonomer of which comprises 3 to 20 carbon atoms, preferably 4 to 8 carbon atoms, the density of which is between 0.863 and 0.915 and the MFI of which is between 0.5 and 30, preferably between 3 and 15, g/10 min; the total forming 100%, the blend of (A) and (B) being such that its MFI is between 0.1 and 15, preferably between 1 and 13, g/10 min.
US07794804B2
Oxygen scavenging materials incorporated into or attached to a package such as a gable-top or rectangular carton, used to package foods, beverages or other oxygen sensitive materials, and thereby increase shelf-life by decreasing oxygen in the headspace of the package, and decreasing oxidation of the packaged product.
US07794803B2
A plastic substrate according to the present invention is used in optical instruments. The plastic substrate includes a composite substrate 10 in which fibers 11 are embedded in a resin matrix 12. The fibers are arranged in at least one predetermined direction within a plane of the composite substrate. The composite substrate substantially transmits visible radiation and has a predefined retardation that is associated with the predetermined direction in which the fibers are arranged.
US07794789B2
A multi-station deposition apparatus capable of simultaneous processing multiple substrates using a plurality of stations, where a gas curtain separates the stations. The apparatus further comprises a multi-station platen that supports a plurality of wafers and rotates the wafers into specific deposition positions at which deposition gases are supplied to the wafers. The deposition gases may be supplied to the wafer through single zone or multi-zone gas dispensing nozzles.
US07794785B2
To provide a pattern formation method capable of forming a pattern by cleaning a liquid droplet ejection head without causing problems during the liquid droplet ejection operation, when the liquid droplet ejection head stored with a storage solution is used again, a pattern formation method includes: filling a passage including a liquid droplet ejection head and a conduit to feed a functional solution to the liquid droplet ejection head with purified water; filling the passage with a solvent dissolving both the purified water and a solvent contained in the functional solution, filling the passage with the solvent contained in the functional solution, surface treating a substrate by forming a lyophobic film on a region surrounding a pattern formation region defined on the substrate; and disposing liquid droplets on the pattern formation region with the liquid droplet ejection head.
US07794782B2
A method of restoring electrical distribution cafes that have lowered performance due to treeing is carried out by (i) supplying the interstices of stranded aluminum conductor portions of such cafes with a restoration fluid comprising an alkoxysilane or mixture of alkoxysilanes selected from aromatic functional alkoxysilanes, alkylalkoxysilanes, amino functional alkoxysilanes, epoxy functional alkoxysilanes, fluoro functional alkoxysilanes, vinyl functional alkoxysilanes, or methacrylate functional alkoxysilanes; and (ii) adding a sulfidosilane, a mercapto functional alkoxysilane, a phosphonated silane, or mixtures thereof, to the restoration fluid to improve the corrosion resistance of the aluminum, as it comes into contact with corrosive agents at elevated temperatures.
US07794776B1
Methods of modifying properties such as degradation rate and drug release rate of polymer stents with radiation are disclosed.
US07794775B2
The present invention relate to a balloon expandable stent mounted on a balloon catheter, the entire assembly being overcoated with a coherent polymer coating, which is preferably substantially continuous over the circumference and, more preferably, axial length of the stent on the balloon. The polymer coating improves retention of the stent on the balloon during delivery and does not adversely effect the deployment characteristics, nor the balloon failure characteristics. The product is made by mounting the stent on the balloon and coating the assembly with a liquid coating composition containing a suitable polymer followed by curing of the coating. The polymer is biocompatible and preferably crosslinkable in the coating composition, and crosslinked in the final product. A suitable polymer is formed from monomers including a zwitterionic, preferably a phosphoryl choline, group, and monomers including a trialkoxysilyl group. Preferably the coated product is contacted with ethylene oxide to provide simultaneous sterilization and additional curing.
US07794769B2
A reduced sucrose cookie dough is provided comprising a Saccharide System. The Saccharide System comprises a crystalline sugar alcohol comprising at least one member selected from the group consisting of crystalline maltitol, crystalline lactitol, and crystalline isomalt and at least one member selected from the group consisting of a liquid sugar alcohol and a long chain sugar complex. The Saccharide System has a Collective Solubility that is within about 20% of the solubility of sucrose in the dough. The cookie dough has a sucrose content of less than 0.5 grams per serving size. Methods of making the cookie dough are also provided.
US07794768B2
Saturated and unsaturated compounds having sweet, salt or umami taste enhancement qualities. The compounds have the structure: wherein R1═H or methyl; R2 is selected from the group consisting of H, C1-C4 alkyl, alkenyl and methylene; R3 is selected from the group consisting of H, C1-C8 straight or branched chain alkyl, alkenyl, dienalkyl and phenyl; or if R1═H, R2 and R3 taken together can represent cyclopropyl, cyclobutyl, cyclopentyl, cyclopentenyl, cyclohexyl, or cyclohexenyl; R4 is selected from the group consisting of H, methyl and ethyl; R5 is selected from the group consisting of H, methyl and ethyl; R6 is selected from the group consisting of H, C1-C9 straight or branched chain alkyl, alkenyl, alkyldienyl, and acyclic or cyclic containing no more than one ring; with the proviso that in structure 1, when R4 is H or Me and R5═H or methyl, R6 may be selected from the group described above and phenyl.
US07794767B2
The present invention relates to a compound of formula wherein R1 is a C2-7 linear alkyl group. This compound can be used as flavoring ingredient, for instance to impart flavor notes of the green tea and creamy/fatty type as well as to impart a desirable mouthfeel effect.
US07794761B2
Phenolic compounds with a phenolic molecule to which are covalently linked an oxygen-containing group, a nitrogen or another oxygen containing group, and a C1-C4 alkoxy group, or their precursor compounds, obtainable from monocotyledonous plants, or by chemical synthesis, have been found to calm and/or reduce anxiety and related behaviors and states in humans and animals. Additional chemical compounds of the present invention may include benzoxazinoids-cyclic hydroxyamic acids, lactams, and corresponding glucosides, which may serve as precursors to phenolic compounds. The phenolic compounds and precursors of phenolic compounds of the present invention, at concentrations suitable for human and animal therapeutic use, may be obtained from monocotyledonous plants such as corn in their early growth states which are timely harvested for optimum yield.
US07794749B2
The present invention relates to a dietary supplement and method for a rapidly dissolving and disintegrating solid oral dosage form. Specifically, the present invention provides dietary supplements and methods for the delivery of dietary supplements comprising Arginine or derivatives thereof and Xanthinol Nicotinate or derivatives thereof. By way of oral administration to an individual of said solid oral dosage form, a method of rapidly increasing nitric oxide activity in an individual is also provided.
US07794745B2
The present invention is related to improved compositions for reducing serum total and/or LDL cholesterol levels. The compositions are combinations of dietary fiber and plant sterol. The compositions are used as such or more advantageously in food products and comprise one or several fibers, preferably β-glucan, in combination with one or several plant sterols and/or stanols in their free and/or esterified forms.
US07794737B2
This invention concerns extrudates having high surface area materials and at least one metal ion adsorbed onto the high surface area material. The extrudates may be breathable films, multilayer laminates and pultruded articles. The extrudates may be made into storage and packaging material to reduce odor and retard the ripening of fruit. The extrudates, if in the form of a breathable film or multilayer laminate may be used as outer cover material for personal care products like diapers, adult incontinence products, training pants and the like. The high surface area particle-containing extrudate may be made by adding modified nanoparticles to a filler before the filler is treated with a fatty acid. Alternatively, a filler previously treated with a fatty acid may be modified by subjecting the filler to sonic energy in the presence of an aqueous solution of metal ions and nanoparticles.
US07794723B2
This invention relates to proteins or peptides that elicit T cell mediated immunity, and to cancer vaccines and compositions for anti-cancer treatment comprising such proteins or peptide fragments. This invention also relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising the proteins or peptides and methods for generating T lymphocytes capable of recognizing and destroying tumor cells in a mammal. More specifically, a telomerase protein or peptide for use in a method of treatment or prophylaxis of cancer is provided. In a preferred embodiment, the method comprises generating a T cell response against telomerase.
US07794718B2
The invention provides immunosuppressive polypeptides and nucleic acids encoding such polypeptides. In one aspect, the invention provides mutant CTLA-4 polypeptides and nucleic acids encoding mutant CTLA-4 polypeptides. Compositions and methods for utilizing such polypeptides and nucleic acids are also provided.
US07794715B2
A method for the treatment of inflammatory disorders is disclosed, particularly the treatment of arthritis. The method comprises particular therapeutic and preventive treatment regimens for the administration of a T-cell immune response cDNA 7 (TIRC7) antagonist, preferably an anti-TIRC7 antibody. Particularly useful monoclonal, in particular chimeric anti-TIRC7 antibodies are described. Furthermore, a combination therapy for the treatment of an inflammatory disease, particularly rheumatoid arthritis, is provided involving the use of TIRC7 antagonist, such as anti-TIRC7 antibody in conjunction with an anti-inflammatory drug such as TNF-α antagonist.
US07794712B2
This application relates to the production and characterization of a mutant strain of Aspergillus fumigatus. The application also relates to a method for inhibiting siderophore biosynthesis in Aspergillus fumigatus and an assay for identifying drug candidates or other agents having potential inhibitory activity. The method may comprise, for example, the step of inhibiting an enzyme catalyzing siderophore biosynthesis, such as L-ornithine N5-oxygenase. In one embodiment the siderophore is a hydroxamate siderophore, such as N′N″N′″-triacetylfusarinine C (TAF) or ferricrocin. A method of preventing or treating fungal infections in a patient is also described comprising administering to the patient an agent suitable for inhibiting fungal secretion of siderophores. The method is particularly useful for immunocompromised patients susceptible to fungal infections caused by Aspergillus fumigatus, such as pulmonary aspergillosis. The invention also relates to diagnostic methods for detecting a biomarker indicative of likely A fumigatus infection in vivo, such as serum presence of TAF.
US07794694B2
A composition for topical application to the skin to provide tanning, comprising a liposome encapsulated ursolic acid, a tanning agent and a cosmetically acceptable carrier, and methods of use thereof.
US07794693B2
Peptide vectors having high KDR binding affinity and processes for making such vectors are provided. The peptide vectors may be conjugated to phospholipids and included in ultrasound contrast agent compositions. Such ultrasound contrast agents are particularly useful in therapeutic and diagnostic methods, such as in imaging KDR-containing tissue and in the evaluation and treatment of angiogenic processes associated with neoplastic conditions. The present invention also provides processes for the large scale production of highly pure dimeric and monomeric peptide phospholipid conjugates as well as precursor materials used to form the conjugates. The present invention further provides processes for the large scale production of highly pure peptide phospholipid conjugates which contain very low levels of TFA.
US07794691B2
Methods of using Th-226 or mother radionuclides thereof, namely U-230 or Th-226, in medicine. These radionuclides are particularly appropriate for the treatment of human and/or non-human mammals, in particular for therapeutic, diagnostic (detection/imaging), prophylactic and pain palliation purposes. These radionuclides may be used in various forms for treatment and/or diagnostic purposes, in particular in cationic form or in the form of radioconjugates or bone-targeting complexes. Methods of making such radionuclides.
US07794688B2
Magnesium oxychloride cement is formed by mixing a magnesium chloride (MgCl2) brine solution with a magnesium oxide (MgO) composition in a selected stoichiometric ratio of MgCl2, MgO, and H2O that forms the 5 phase magnesium oxychloride cement composition. Although Sorel cements formed from the mixture of MgCl2, MgO can form a variety of compounds, the inventive systems and methods provide for controlling the cement kinetics to form the five phase magnesium oxychloride cement composition and results in an improved and stable cement composition. Various fillers can be optionally added to form preferred cement materials for uses as diverse such as road stripping, fire-proofing, fire barriers, cement repair, and mortar.
US07794681B2
An efficient method for producing a silicon oxide powder at a low cost is provided. This method comprises the steps of heating a powder mixture of a silicon dioxide powder and a metal silicon powder to a temperature of 1,100 to 1,450° C. in an inert gas or under reduced pressure to generate silicon monoxide gas, and precipitating the silicon monoxide gas on a surface of a substrate to produce the silicon oxide powder, and in this method, the silicon dioxide powder has an average particle diameter of up to 1 μm, and the metal silicon powder has an average particle diameter of 30 μm.
US07794679B2
The invention provides a catalyst for catalytically reducing nitrogen oxides in diesel engine exhaust gas by use of unburnt carbon contained in the diesel engine exhaust gas as a reducing agent, the catalyst comprising: (a) an acid zeolite, or (b) an alkali metal- and/or alkaline earth metal-containing zeolite, or (c) a rare earth metal-containing zeolite, or (d) a zeolite containing at least one transition metal selected from Fe, Co, Ni and Cu.
US07794675B2
A medical swab pouch is disclosed. The inexpensive elastic pouch contains disinfectant and is configured for protecting and swabbing a wide variety of luer systems to prevent and eliminate bacterial contamination. The pouch has a flattened configuration and can be elastically dilated, as by squeezing the pouch between the thumb and index finger and is readily carried in large numbers in nurse's pockets (in a manner similar to that for conventional alcohol swabs). The pouch covers and protects the luer valve at the discretion of the user and without transmission of torsion or longitudinal force which might loosen the luer valve or otherwise be transmitted to the vein.
US07794669B2
Disclosed is a chemical reaction cartridge including a substrate which is a rigid body and an elastic body, and a flow path and two or more chambers connected by the flow path are formed inside the cartridge, the cartridge is structured so as to move or block a fluid substance in the flow path or the chamber by partially sealing the flow path, the chamber or the both of the flow path and the chamber by applying external force to the elastic body from outside, and the substrate includes convex portions which protrude further than the elastic body at a surface of the substrate, on which the elastic body is formed.
US07794652B2
A dental prosthesis may be cast and machined from a cobalt-, iron- and/or nickel-chromium base dental alloy comprising at least 25% metal selected from the group consisting of ruthenium, platinum, palladium, iridium, osmium, rhodium, and gold wherein the major portion or at least 15%, whichever is larger, of metal in this group is ruthenium; from 15 to 30% chromium; and a principal balance of metal selected from the group consisting of iron. nickel and cobalt.
US07794650B2
A graphite-containing, heat-resistant cast iron for exhaust equipment members used at temperatures exceeding 800° C., comprising 3.5-5.6% of Si and 1.2-15% of W on a weight basis, and having intermediate layers, in which W and Si are concentrated, in the boundaries of graphite particles and a matrix. An exhaust equipment member formed by this heat-resistant cast iron has an AC1 transformation point is 840° C. or higher when measured from 30° C. at a temperature-elevating speed of 3° C./minute, and a thermal cracking life of 780 cycles or more in a thermal fatigue test, in which heating and cooling are conducted under the conditions of an upper-limit temperature of 840° C., a temperature amplitude of 690° C. and a constraint ratio of 0.25.
US07794649B2
The present invention is directed to a method of making heat cells that are suitable for incorporation into disposable heating wraps. The heat cells comprise an exothermic composition comprising an absorbent gelling material, wherein the absorbent gelling material provides for improved heat application in the relief of temporary or chronic body aches and pains.
US07794646B2
A method for manufacturing a mold used in impression process is provided. The method includes the following steps: forming a negative photoresist layer between a transparent substrate and a supporting substrate; exposing the negative photoresist layer via the transparent substrate by direct writing technology; removing the supporting substrate; and developing the negative photoresist layer to form the mold.
US07794641B2
A method of manufacturing golf balls composed of a core and a cover of one or more layer that encloses the core, at least one cover layer being made of a thermoplastic polyurethane composition characterized by including at least 90 wt % of a thermoplastic polyurethane obtained by a polyurethane-forming reaction of an organic diisocyanate compound with a long-chain polyol and a chain extender, which thermoplastic polyurethane composition cover layer has an inherent viscosity in a DMF solvent of larger than 1.5 dl/g and an inherent viscosity in a 0.05 mol/L n-butylamine-containing DMF solution of larger than 0.5 dl/g, the golf ball manufacturing method being characterized by: conditioning the thermoplastic polyurethane to a pre-processing moisture content of 500 ppm or less, then injection molding the moisture-conditioned thermoplastic polyurethane to form the thermoplastic polyurethane composition cover layer. Golf balls produced by this method have a high rebound and excellent spin characteristics and scuff resistance, are recyclable in a molding operation, and have excellent manufacturability.
US07794639B2
A method for manufacturing a carbon nanotube composite, comprising the steps of:(a) preparing a solution of a polymer precursor; (b) immersing carbon nanotubes in the solution and ultrasonically cleaning the solution; (c) polymerizing the polymer precursor in order to obtain a polymer matrix having carbon nanotubes uniformly dispersed therein; (d) forming the polymer matrix into a composite having carbon nanotubes distributed therein by way of extrusion; and (e) elongating the composite so as to cause the carbon nanotubes to be orderly distributed therein.
US07794638B2
Method and apparatus for making fastener products (117) having molded projections (110) or other molded features carried on a surface (130) feature a transfer device (135) having an outer surface with at least one transfer area (H) relatively raised with respect to another area (L) of the outer surface of the device.
US07794623B2
Liquid crystalline epoxy compounds, compositions including the compounds, and methods of using the compositions are disclosed. In one aspect, an epoxy compound may have a melting point that is less than 140° C. and may be liquid crystalline at a temperature greater than 150° C.
US07794622B2
Disclosed is a method for preparation of a liquid crystal film having uniaxial alignment, comprising steps of: elevating temperature of a substrate coated with a nanostructure formed of liquid crystal molecules to a value sufficient to alter the nanostructure into a liquid phase; and decreasing the temperature to another value sufficient to again alter the liquid phase into a liquid crystal phase in the presence of a magnetic field to horizontally align the nanostructure of liquid crystal molecules.
US07794621B2
The instant invention relates to mesogenic systems comprising a) a polymeric component, component A, obtained or obtainable from polymerisation of a precursor comprising one or more mesogenic mono-reactive compounds, one or more di-reactive compounds, which optionally are also mesogenic compounds and optionally a photo-initiator and a low molecular weight component, component B, comprising one or more mono-reactive, mesogenic compounds, one or more mesogenic compounds and one or more chiral dopants, exhibiting a Blue Phase, as well as to the use of these systems in deices and to these devices.
US07794613B2
A method of fabricating a printhead having a hydrophobic ink ejection face is provided. The method comprises the steps of: (a) providing a partially-fabricated printhead comprising a plurality of nozzle chambers and a relatively hydrophilic nozzle surface, the nozzle surface at least partially defining the ink ejection face; (b) depositing a layer of relatively hydrophobic polymeric material onto the nozzle surface, the polymeric material being resistant to removal by ashing; and (c) defining a plurality of nozzle openings in the nozzle surface, thereby providing a printhead having a relatively hydrophobic ink ejection face. Steps (b) and (c) may be performed in any order.
US07794611B2
A micropump includes a body (10) of semiconductor material, accommodating fluid-tight chambers (32), having an internal preset pressure, lower than atmospheric pressure. The fluid-tight chambers (32), sealed by a diaphragm (35) that can be electrically opened, are selectively openable using a first electrode (37) and second electrodes (38), accommodating between them portions of the diaphragm (35).
US07794608B2
Water within a water tank is irradiated with ultraviolet light from a UV lamp for virucidal and germicidal purposes while simultaneously transforming oxygen molecules to ozone molecules in an oxygen containing gas flowing within an annular space defined by a sleeve surrounding the UV lamp. The ozone enriched gas flows into an enlarged chamber into which the UV lamp extends and the flow rate is reduced to enhance the time of exposure of the ozone enriched gas to UV radiation and thereby enhance the production of ozone. To increase the rate of transformation of oxygen molecules to ozone molecules, the gas is under a predetermined pressure prior to entering the annular space and subsequent to discharge from the chamber.
US07794603B2
The present invention concerns a method for purification of contaminated water through hydrate formation and separation of hydrates from contaminated water enriched with contaminants, by supplying hydrate particles to the water during hydrate formation. The present invention also concerns a device for purification of water by using a method according to the invention, and water produced according to the invention. By using the process principles according to the present invention, all types of water can be purified for consumption or safe discharge, or desired resources can be recovered, and air can be purified if it first is bubbled through the water which then is purified by a method according to the invention.
US07794602B2
Disclosed herein is a purification method characterized by adding a chitosan powder or a chitosan-coated substance, and optionally further adding a silica sol to liquor and filtering the mixture by a filter machine to remove unsaturated fatty acids, compounds of unsaturated fatty acids with metal ions, or fusel oil from the liquor.
US07794599B2
A bioreactor system for microbiological treatment of wastewater including: at least one highly-flexible substrate for providing a superficial environment conducive for supporting biomass growth, the substrate including: (a) a large plurality of threads disposed in a generally longitudinal direction and including a plurality of synthetic filaments, and (b) at least two cross-support elements disposed across and associated with the plurality of threads, so as to provide support for and loosely associate the threads, wherein openings defined by (i) adjacent threads of the threads, and (ii) adjacent cross-support elements of the elements, have an aspect ratio exceeding 50 to 1.
US07794598B2
The invention relates to a bioreactor (1) for the purification of waters, said reactor comprising a cross-sectionally essentially circular or elliptical tank section (2) provided with inlet means (5) for water to be purified and outlet means (6) for purified water. The tank holds thereinside carrier material (3) on which a biofilm may develop. The tank is further provided with means (4) for supplying a fluid which contains a reaction gas required by the purification process, such that the water to be purified develops gas bubbles containing a reaction gas. The tank section is adapted to be essentially full of water during the purification process. The fluid supply means (4) are disposed on the tank wall and the reactor comprises control means for operating the fluid supply means in such a way that a spinning motion of the carrier, the water, and at least some of said reaction-gas bearing bubbles is effected thereby around a rotation centerline passing essentially through the tank's cross-sectional center. The control means are adapted to optionally effect a deactivation of the fluid supply means at desired times and/or a replacement of the fluid with an oxygen-free fluid for providing an anaerobic process. The invention relates also to a method for the biological purification of waters in a bioreactor.
US07794581B2
Components which are subject to operating loads can often be passed for refurbishment by means of an acid treatment. The time for which the components remain in the acid has hitherto been determined empirically, which means that individual loads are not taken into account. The process according to the invention for the surface treatment of a component proposes that at least repeatedly a measurement voltage be applied to the component, resulting in the flow of a current, the time profile of which represents the state of the surface treatment and is used to decide upon when to terminate or interrupt the acid treatment.
US07794580B2
A method of winning a metal from its oxide ore by heating the ore in a partial vacuum or under an inert atmosphere in the presence of a reductant. The resulting product may be further reduced electrochemically to produce a purer metal.
US07794579B2
A process for the production of chlorates and derivative chemicals from ammonium perchlorate as a starting material. Ammonia is produced in a first step wherein a metal hydroxide is reacted with ammonium perchlorate to produce ammonia and a metal perchlorate. If the metal hydroxide used is sodium hydroxide, sodium perchlorate is formed. The ammonia generated is recovered and sent to a reformer to produce hydrogen which is used to fuel a fuel cell that generates water and electrical energy to run an electrochemical reactor where the metal perchlorate is converted to a metal chlorate and derivative chemicals.
US07794577B2
A spacer element (1) is disclosed having an integral screen for use in filled cell electrodialysis. The spacer (1) has a continuous portion (2) impermeable to flow and a screen (3) which spans a centrally-located flow treatment region that contains active treatment material, such as ion exchange beads. The screen (3) may perform a structural function, allowing operation at elevated pressure, and may also define a minimum gap between adjacent membranes and enhance mixing along the flow path and at cell boundaries. The spacer element (1) may be configured to enhance hydraulic filling of the cells, and cell architecture is readily implemented in a wide range of useful flow path geometries utilizing the screen spacer element (1).
US07794573B2
Systems and methods for electrochemically processing microfeature workpieces are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a system includes (a) a processing unit having a first flow system configured to convey a flow of a first processing fluid to a microfeature workpiece, (b) an electrode unit having an electrode and a second flow system configured to convey a flow of a second processing fluid at least proximate to the electrode, (c) a barrier between the processing unit and the electrode unit to separate the first and second processing fluids, and (d) a water balance unit for maintaining the concentration of water in the first processing fluid within a desired range.
